Italo-Geometric Dish

Title: Italo-Geometric Dish
Inventory Number: A0022
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy.
From Date: -699
To Date: -600
Description: Small impasto dish with broad shallowly convex rim. Upper surface solidly coated on rim with paint continuing as broad band on upper wall of dish proper which continues as spiral which ends in center of interior. On underside traces of stripe just below rim and two dots just above stripe at one quarter of circumference.
State of Preservation: Intact except for largish chip from surface of rim, sporadic chipping elsewhere.
Height: 1.00 cm
Rim Diameter: 11.54 cm
Base Diameter: 5.15 cm
Color: Clay body 7.5YR 6/4 (light brown); decoration ca 7.5YR 4/2 (brown-dark brown).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay