VesselsGreek1st century BCE

Small Redware Dish

1st century BCE

Description

Dish with slightly flaring lip and blackened rim inside an incised line. Dark streak across middle. No. 343 on label on bottom of dish.

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Redware

Medium

Terracotta, with blackened rim, and dark streak across middle

Culture

Greek

Period

Hellenistic period to Early Roman Imperial

Century

1st century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

3 x 10.7 cm (1 3/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Richard C. Brockway, Acquired this object in the early 1960s..

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