Terracotta Megarian bowl
Narrow bands of tiny rosettes and interlocking ivy above a zone of alternating long petals, acanthus leaves and rosettes. On medallion, an eight petal rosette framed by two ridges.
The reddish-brown glaze of this bowl, similar to that on 17.194.1825 nearby, suggests it was made in Asia Minor, and perhaps more specifically, Pergamon. Red-ware, as this type of pottery is called, had a relatively short period of production. It was ultimately supplanted by red-glossed Roman terra-sigillata and Arrentine pottery beginning around the middle of the 1st century B.C. Examples of such later wares may be seen in case 49 in this gallery.