Acquisition number: 1966.17
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Orange clay. The inner face of the foot is concave and offset from the underside of the floor. Red-brown paint covering the vase entirely but for the underside of the floor.
Title: Small Sicilian Dish - 1966.17
Acquisition number: 1966.17
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Late 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate
Dimensions: 95mm (w) × 28mm (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.
1966.17
Small Sicilian Dish
Ht 2.8cm; diam. 9.5cm.
Orange clay. The inner face of the foot is concave and offset from the underside of the floor. Red-brown paint covering the vase entirely but for the underside of the floor.
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.