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High-rimmed bowl
Greek
Late Geometric Period
about 735–720 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.), Diameter: 30.1 cm
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Suzanne R. Dworsky
Accession Number1978.637
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThe high-rimmed bowl has two horizontal handles attached at the widest point of the shallow cup. There is a diamond-shaped design at the handle-zone and a double row of zigzags at lip. Brown on reddish buff. Wide bands of brown on inside. Broken and mended. Bowls like this one are often found in Athenian Geometric tombs as gifts for the dead.
ProvenanceBy date unknown before 1966: Alice Walton Collection; by 1966: Mrs. Leo H. Dworsky Collection (loaned to MFA, Sept. 8, 1966 as 550.66); gift to MFA from Mrs. Suzanne R. Dworsky, December 20, 1978