2nd-4th century CE
Dish; applied foot ring, center of dish raised, sides bent outwards to form dish shape, rolled lip, two opposite applied sections of wavy decoration on rim. Previously reconstructed from fragments, with section of body and of rim missing; covered in patches of iridescence, dirt accretions on ring foot and rim decoration.
15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
Bettina Jane Kahnweiler, New York City, NY (by 1935), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
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