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African red-slip bowl with a boy on a dolphin
Roman Provincial
Late Roman
A.D. 320-400
Place of Manufacture: Tunisia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic; African Red Slip Ware, figures in relief applied separately
Dimensions
Diameter:: 7.5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Mary B. Comstock
Accession Number1988.1086
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThe bowl is decorated with mythological scenes related to young boys saved from drowning by dolphins. Perhaps, it is poet Arion, who was saved from drowning by a dolphin or maybe Palaimon (the infant son of Athamas, King of Corinth, and Ino) who was drowned and resurrected as a dolphin-riding god.
Decoration is stamped appliques
Unbroken and in good condition.
Decoration is stamped appliques
Unbroken and in good condition.
ProvenanceDecember 14, 1988, sold by Galerie Gunter Puhze, Freiburg, to Mary B. Comstock, Brookline; 1988, year-end gift of Mary B. Comstock to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 1989)