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Description: | One body sherd of a samian type bowl, the wall tapering in thickness from 11mm near the base to 5mm at the highest visible part. The body is of a terracotta colour with a darker red finish to the surfaces. The inner surface is plain but the outer is decorated with typical relief motifs. They are arranged as follows: (top) plain and recessed, mostly lacking. (2nd) a zone 7.5mm deep, containing a series of hanging swags each separated by a vertical bar from the next. This zone is distinguished from the 3rd, below, by a zigzag line. (3rd) This zone, which covers the belly of the bowl, occupies a sherd height of 45mm and is arranged with roundels interspersed by vertical or columnar arrangements. The sherd shows (left) two beaded columns with a disc at head and foot, with (between) a tall foliate sconce on which is set a nude human figure, frontal, its arms raised above its head. This is essentially a caryatid or corbel-figure like those in terracotta relief from the Pompeiian bath-houses. To the right of this is a roundel, partly broken away, containing a figure leaning on an irregularly-shaped staff. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 125
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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