Title: Sicilian Plain Dish - 1966.23
Acquisition number: 1966.23
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Author or editor: J.R. Green
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Early 3rd century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 299 to 200
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate
Dimensions: 136mm (w) × 30mm (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.
1966.23
Sicilian Plain Dish
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 3cm; diam. 13.6cm.
Intact. Cream-buff clay. Out-turned rim; the base somewhat concave.
The dish has a simple form with slight carination of the wall. Perhaps early third century BC.
See 1966.01-1966.42 in this catalogue for all material from the Woite Collection in the ANU collection.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 74.
1966.23
Sicilian plain dish
c. early 3rd century BC
From the Woite Collection.
Intact.