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Early relief ware bowl
Caius Popilius (Central Italian)
Roman
Republican Period
110–80 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, mold-made
Dimensions
Height: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.); diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.59
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionItalian 'Megarian'. Embossed decorations. A large floral rosette covers the bottom. At the top a band of festoons and masks; next a band of grapevine; then a band of square panels, in which are alternately bucrania and comic masks with Argolic shields. Between this band and the rosette the inscription...Repaired with considerable restoration.
Signed
C.POPILI MEVANIE
ProvenanceBy 1892: A. van Branteghem Collection (Hotel Drouot auction of the van Branteghem collection, Paris, May 30-31, and June 1, lot 308 [said to have been found at Corchiano, near Viterbo]); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)