Votive Patera

Title: Votive Patera
Inventory Number: A0048
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -199
To Date: -1
Description: Open bowl with incurved rim on low pedestal base hollow beneath. Coated inside and out with black glaze. After firing long diagonal slashes made on exterior from rim; two X’s incised at distance of about 1/3 circumference from one another on exterior at and just below incurving rim.
State of Preservation: Paint worn particularly on rim and edge of base and over smaller of X’s, sporadic wear elsewhere.
Height: 3.55 cm
Max Diameter: 7.82 cm
Rim Diameter: 6.87 cm
Base Diameter: 2.9 cm
Color: Clay body 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); slip 5YR 3/1 (very dark gray).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay