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Description

Cream clay bowl with black glaze. The bowl is shallow with a wide mouth and a rounded rim. The base is thin and disc shaped.

History Of Use

Bowls with this shape were primarily utilitarian but also could serve as votive offering or as grave goods. Small size of this object suggests that it may not have been intended for regular use, but was in fact votive. It was common practice to create miniature examples of pottery forms to be buried in votive deposits

Cultural Context

utilitarian; funerary; votive

Narrative

This collection was said to have been acquired by James George during his service in Greece (Athens) from 1945-48. J.W. Hayes identified the bowl as a standard classical shape in Corinthian fabrication.

Item History

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