- KE 402/1263/1264 (Middle Hellenistic Corinthian Moldmade Bowl) [permalink] [next]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- P 95/343/344
- Typological identification
- Hellenistic Moldmade Bowl (“Megarian Bowl“)
- Comparanda
- Figures: cf. AgoraXXII, pp. 68-69, nos. 200, 202, pls. 38, 81 (S. Rotroff; ca. 175-150 and 200-150 B.C.E.)
- Comparanda
- Molded imagery of Rape of Ganymede: Courby1922, p. 344 and AgoraXXII, p. 22
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthVII.3, pp. 166, 169, no. 827, pl. 70 (G. R. Edwards)
- Conservation
- 1960s: mended with natural shellac and infilled with plaster painted gray.
- Description
- Hemipsherical bowl with molded relief on wall to base and high, plain rim with slightly everted lip. Medallion: surrounded by at least one ridge. Calyx: row of long ferns separated by tiny ferns. Wall: one register with repeated scene of Rape of Ganymede (Zeus striding right, bent forward, holding outstretched Ganymede in arm, with large eagle perched over left shoulder; flying Nike to right. Small nikai separating scene below. Rim: framed row of ovolo; single rows of spirals above and below.
- Fabric, firing, surface
- Reddish orangish fabric variable fired with wide areas buff at very surface. Somewhat fine, soft, with smooth break and vaguely powdery texture; uncommon, well sorted, tiny to small, spherical lime particles. Thin, semimatte(?) flip, brownish black but mottled, very poorly preserved only in severely peeling patches and specks in relief. Corinthian.
- Preservation comment
- 12 joining sherds (402) and two nonjoining sherds (1263/1264) preserve ca. 25% of bottom and wall and 8% of rim. Extensive, slight to moderate abrasion with slight scoring and rare gouging; worn breaks; faint specks to small patches of thin encrustation.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIV, pp. 13-14, no. Gr 29, pl. 3 (B. Adamsheck)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eagle (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Person (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Zeus/Jupiter (Visual Motif)
- Pagescan
- Photograph
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