Terracotta stemmed dish

Terracotta; black-glaze | 8.3 x 8.3cm | Late 5th century B.C.

Unknown Artist

This is one of a variety of shapes that probably contained food--olives, small fruits, nuts--rather than liquids.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1941
Object: 41.162.247

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