Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$300.00
Light tan-brown fine clay, lustrous black gloss all over except resting surface. Shallow body with low rounded wall and incurved rim. Low wide ring foot, with convex exterior, flat wide resting surface, bottom slopes down to the knob at center. Two concentrical lines in black for each edge of resting surface. On the floor, four stamped palmettes placed diametrically opposed around center. Incised graffito ?G?G on the resting surface. Intact. H. 1.2″ (3.0 cm), D. 3.5″ (8.9 cm).
See: Rotroff S.I. The Athenian Agora. Hellenistic Pottery. Athenian and imported wheelmade table ware and related materials.Vol. XXIX, part 1. Princeton, N.J., 1997, p.165.