Acquisition number: 1966.16
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Pale brown clay; the rim slightly out-turned. Brown to black paint. The inside is painted but for a reserved circle in the centre. There are bands on the rim and upper wall. The underside is reserved.
Title: Small Sicilian Dish - 1966.16
Acquisition number: 1966.16
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Earlier 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate
Dimensions: 93mm (w) × 37mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Display case or on loan: 10
Keywords: Sicilian
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 74.
1966.16
Small Sicilian Dish
Ht 3.7cm; diam. 9.3cm.
Pale brown clay; the rim slightly out-turned. Brown to black paint. The inside is painted but for a reserved circle in the centre. There are bands on the rim and upper wall. The underside is reserved.
Small dishes of this type, commonly known as oxybapha, were made in great quantity as simple table ware, to hold sauces, salt, olives and the like.
1966.17 - 19 are probably of the late fourth century BC: compare for instance Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1955, 305 fig. 21, 2 and 7, 319 fig. 31, 320 fig. 32, 327 fig. 40, 10, all from graves at Lentini. 1966.16 has a rather different profile and is probably somewhat earlier.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 74.