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
$450.00
Light tan-brown fine clay, lustrous black gloss all over. Scraped grooves at junction of the body and foot (interior and exterior). Shallow body with low rounded wall and incurved rim, rounded on top. Low wide ring foot, with convex exterior, flat resting surface; bottom flat with slight knob at center. On the floor concentrical triple grooved stamped band divides two bands of ovolos. Seven stamped palmettes forming a circle, spaced with equal intervals. Intact. H. 0.7″ (1.8 cm), D. 2.3″ (5.8 cm).
See: Sparkes B.A, Talcott L. The Athenian Agora XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C. 2 vol., Princeton, N.J., 1970, 137-138, 302-3.