About this artwork
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figure 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
- On View, Gallery 151
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Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, 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–325 BCE
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Medium
- terracotta, red-figure
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Dimensions
- 4.9 × 24.6 × 24.6 cm (1 15/16 × 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Yun Soo Lim Vermeule
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Reference Number
- 2002.546
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/160175/manifest.json
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