For #FishyFriday: two #AncientGreek #fishplates on display at @artinstitutechi. Before posting their label info, can you tell by the designs which one was probably made in Attica and which by Greek settlers in southern Italy? (there is a hint in the ALTs )
Answer to the question from the original post: the plate on the left was Athenian and the right was Italiote. The label of this 3rd plate reveals the design clue on these #AncientGreek red-figure #fish plates: it’s how the fish bellies are oriented, towards the outer rim or center!
1 Athens, 5th to early 2nd c. BCE (AIC)
2 Campania, 2nd q. 4th c. BCE (AIC)
3 Apulia, late 4th c. BCE (Walters Art Museum)