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Small Sicilian Dish - 1966.19

Acquisition number: 1966.19

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Four small Sicilian dishes. Left to right: 1966.16, 1966.17, 1966.18, 1966.19.

A fragment of the upper wall broken and rejoined. Orange clay. Red-brown paint, worn, applied all over the inside, rim and upper wall. The lower wall, the foot and the underside are reserved.

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Title: Small Sicilian Dish - 1966.19

Acquisition number: 1966.19

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: Late 4th century BC.

Date century or Timeline (notional): 399 to 300

Material: Clay - Terracotta

Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate

Dimensions: 88mm (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.

1966.19

Small Sicilian Dish

Ht 3cm; diam. 8.8cm.

A fragment of the upper wall broken and rejoined. Orange clay. Red-brown paint, worn, applied all over the inside, rim and upper wall. The lower wall, the foot and the underside are 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.

1966.19

Four small Sicilian dishes

Small dishes of this type were made in great quantity as simple tableware, to hold sauces, salt, olives and the like.

Later 4th century BC

From the Woite Collection.

A fragment of the upper wall broken and rejoined.