Megarian bowl Artist: Unknown

Ca. 150–100 B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

The ribbed pattern of this bowl is based on a floral design, consisting of long petals radiating from the bottom of the bowl. The inscription gives the name of the maker of the mold, POLEMONOS. Athenian development and manufacture of this class of bowl is suggested by the discovery of molds used to make them in excavations at the Athenian Agora. The type was later popular in Boeotia, Delos, and elsewhere, occurring as well in Italian bowls. The pattern was adapted to silver and glass vessels, as for example the glass bowl by Ennion.

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

3 1/8 × 5 1/4 in. (8 × 13.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.199

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Late Hellenistic

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Acquired in Salonika; ex. coll. Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich
Bibliography
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, "Megarian Bowls in the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University," American Journal of Archaeology (1941), 236–38, pl. XI, fig. 6
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 125–28, fig. 46
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

Signed

In Greek, molded in side one petal: POLEMONOS.

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