mold for bowl Potter: Eppillius of Lezoux (Roman, ca. 100–150)

1st half 2nd century A.D.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (11.4 × 21 cm)
Approximate Diameter of Original Bowl: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.538

Culture

Roman, Gaulish

Period

Roman

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Geslin auction sale.
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 303, no. 119, pl. 119
  • 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), 250–51
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels), molds

Signed

Below sea creature in panel (3), an incised retrograde inscription on a raised rectangular tablet: EPPILLIF= Eppilli(us) f(ecit). Epillius was a potter of Lezoux.

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