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For : polychrome phiale with omphalos, decorated with 🐬 and bonus 🐙 - Eretria, 4th quarter 6th century BCE, H 5cm / D 20.8cm.
Musée du Louvre: collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/

DESCRIPTION: Object name/TitleName: phiale Typology: phiale with omphalos Description/Features: Decor: interior (on rim); corrugated tape; interior; dolphin (8); octopus (2); tabs on omphalos; band (several) State of the work: incomplete; minus a fragment of the rim redone in plaster; a few small chips; glued PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Dimensions: Height: 5cm; Diameter: 20.8cm Material: clay Technique: layered paint (paint) Technical precision: white paint (wavy tape, dolphins, octopuses, tongues)-red paint (dolphins, stripes) PLACES AND DATES: DatePeriod / period: Archaic; technique of Six Date of creation/production: 4th quarter 6th c. BCE (around -520 - -500) Place of origin: Athens Place of discovery: Eretria held by: Louvre Museum, Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Accession number: MNB 624 Catalog number: L 210
Apr 15, 2023, 04:02 AM·Public·Web
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