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NM Ant 1652 :: bowl

Object description: Tall, almost straight rim; shallow, rounded body, lower part almost conical; horizontal reflex, ribbon handles on body; flat base. Reddish yellow clay; semilustrous, dark brown paint, diluted to reddish brown at places. Inside of bowl painted except reserved circle on floor centre, band on outer part of floor, thin bands on inside of wall and reserved area on inside of rim with groups of bars; metope and triglyph frieze on rim: three metopes of checker lozenges within hatched frames and cross-hatched pendant and standing triangles, alternating with four metopes of hatched swastikas and stacked chevrons, one metope filled with checkers, between metopes a triglyph system of hatched and cross-hatched panels; three lines encircling junction between rim and body; on two sides of body hatched, broken meander pattern flanked by piled double chevrons and double, vertical lines and dotted, stalked rosette; chain pattern within horizontal lines on handles; body below meander encircled, lowest part painted.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1652

Serie nummer

642

Object

bowl

Object, Swedish

kärl; skål

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Grekland

Region - Findspot

Attica

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased by Sam Wide in Athens, 1893-1994.

Description

Tall, almost straight rim; shallow, rounded body, lower part almost conical; horizontal reflex, ribbon handles on body; flat base. Reddish yellow clay; semilustrous, dark brown paint, diluted to reddish brown at places. Inside of bowl painted except reserved circle on floor centre, band on outer part of floor, thin bands on inside of wall and reserved area on inside of rim with groups of bars; metope and triglyph frieze on rim: three metopes of checker lozenges within hatched frames and cross-hatched pendant and standing triangles, alternating with four metopes of hatched swastikas and stacked chevrons, one metope filled with checkers, between metopes a triglyph system of hatched and cross-hatched panels; three lines encircling junction between rim and body; on two sides of body hatched, broken meander pattern flanked by piled double chevrons and double, vertical lines and dotted, stalked rosette; chain pattern within horizontal lines on handles; body below meander encircled, lowest part painted.

Period

Late Geometric

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current