Fish plate
Plates like this were used to serve fish at the table, with the small depression at the centre holding a small bowl for sauce. The decoration shows three bream and white spots which represent shell-fish.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 44/1951/26
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Material
- pottery | terracotta | Red figure ware | |
- Common Name
- fish plate
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Period Classification
- Archaic - 1100-500 BC
- Production Town
- at or near Cumae?
- Production County
- Campania
- Production Country
- Italy
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Bonython Painter?
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
