Italo-Geometric Bowl

Title: Italo-Geometric Bowl
Inventory Number: A0140
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Bolsena
From Date: -700
Description: Shallow bowl with convex sides rising to poorly articulated carination and continuing vertically to sharply outturned rim; low off-set base shallowly concave on underside. Decorated interior and exterior with broad stripes in orange paint: int, solidly painted circle on base, single stripe about mid-body and narrow stripe on interior of rim which continues on to top and underside of rim: ext, 4 stripes from underside of rim to and including base, concentric swirl of paint on underside of base ending in irregular circle. Two holes close to one another at juncture of rim and body.
State of Preservation: Mended from two large fragments. paint badly worn on surface and interior of rim and on interior wall; slight chipping on exterior.
Height: 4.6 cm
Max Diameter: 4.64 cm
Rim Diameter: 13.0 cm
Base Diameter: 4.64 cm
Color: Clay body ca 7.6YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); paint 2.5YR 5/8 (red).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay