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This platter with its lively fish was found in the ruins of a hermit’s solitary retreat near the Monastery of Epiphanius. Such painted wares were an innovative Egyptian variation on the more elaborate redware with stamped designs that was made farther west in North Africa.
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Title: Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes
Date: 500–700, modern restoration
Geography: Made in Thebes, Byzantine Egypt
Culture: Coptic
Medium: Terracotta decorated with red, white and dark brown slip
Dimensions: Overall: 20 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (51.8 x 4.8 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914
Object Number: 14.6.222
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