About this artwork
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figured plate was used, as its decoration suggests, for serving seafood, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. Tasty juices pooled in the central concavity, which may also have contained sauces.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium
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Culture
- Ancient Greek
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Title
- Fish Plate
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Place
- Campania (Object made in)
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Date
- 350 BCE–330 BCE
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Medium
- terracotta, red-figure
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Dimensions
- 4.2 × 19.6 × 19.6 cm (1 5/8 × 7 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
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Reference Number
- 2002.545
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/160174/manifest.json