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inscribed "of Demetrios"
The inscription on the foot of this bowl associates it with the potter's workshop of Demetrios-Iason. Many bowls carrying the signature of this atelier have been found during excavations of Argos, an important Peloponnesian city-state in antiquity.
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Title: Terracotta Megarian bowl
Period: Hellenistic
Date: ca. 165–150 BCE
Culture: Greek, Argive
Medium: Terracotta; mold made
Dimensions: h. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); d. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Gift of F. W. Rhinelander, 1898
Object Number: 98.8.26
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