1994.04

Red-Slipped Mould-Made Bowl

Donated by Mr Greg Murphy. Ht 6.4cm; diam. 12.7cm.

Intact but the surface worn. Fairly pale buff, smooth, rather soft clay. Matt red slip worn from the area of the lip on one side. A fine double ridge runs around the base, and there is another at the junction of wall and lip on the outer face; the mould went this far. The wall is decorated in relief with alternating small birds and kraters with acanthus leaves at the base of the wall.

The vase was made in a very worn mould. The clay is not unlike Corinthian in appearance, but since it is probably to be dated in the later part of the second century BC or even in the early part of the first, it is unlikely to actually be Corinthian – following the destruction.

On mould-made bowls, see 1980.11. For Corinthian examples, see G.R. Edwards, Corinth vii.3. Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery (Princeton 1975) and C.M. Edwards, “Corinthian Moldmade Bowls: The 1926 Reservoir”, Hesperia 55, 1986, 389-419, but they are earlier than this.

The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society (Adelaide), Catalogue 2, October 1972, item 13.