Terracotta Megarian bowl ca. 2nd–mid 1st century Greek, Asia Minor Rosettes banded by ridges above rows of stylized fernsThe floral motifs, matt glaze, and in-turned rim of this bowl are characteristics of pottery found in great quantities on the Greek island of Delos, an important trading center in the Cyclades. Potter stamps on many of these bowls, however, suggest that they were in fact made by workshops on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor (Turkey) and then imported to Delos. Bowl fragments with very similar relief decoration to this one have been found in Alexandria, Egypt and Tel Dor,
Terracotta Megarian bowl ca. 2nd–mid 1st century Greek, Asia Minor Rosettes banded by ridges above rows of stylized fernsThe floral motifs, matt glaze, and in-turned rim of this bowl are characteristics of pottery found in great quantities on the Greek island of Delos, an important trading center in the Cyclades. Potter stamps on many of these bowls, however, suggest that they were in fact made by workshops on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor (Turkey) and then imported to Delos. Bowl fragments with very similar relief decoration to this one have been found in Alexandria, Egypt and Tel Dor, Israel, attesting to the wide export of these ceramics throughout the eastern Mediterranean Terracotta Megarian bowl. Greek, Asia Minor. ca. 2nd–mid 1st century Terracotta; mold made. Hellenistic. Vases
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