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Grzegrzółka, Sabina: Relief ("Megarian") Bowls in the National Museum in Warsaw
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Sabina Grzegrzółka
Relief ("Megctrian") Bowls
in the National
Museum in Warsaw
In 1956, after a break of about a dozen years caused by the Second World
War and by generał political situation of our country, Professor Kazimierz
Michałowski resumed his excavation works. This time the area explored was
not Egypt, but Crimea, morę precisely Mirmeki - a Greek colony by the sea,
several kilometres from Panticapaeum (Panticapaion), the Capital of Bosporus
State. Professor Michałowski^ mission conducted the excavation works for
two seasons simultaneously with the Soviet mission led by Professor V F.
Gaydukevich.' As a result of these works, some partly preserved materiał,
mostly pottery, found its way to the National Museum in Warsaw. Among
them were the fragments of “Megarian” bowls of particular interest. They will
constitute a topie of a separate article while here we intend to focus on just
five wholly preserved bowls which were added to the collection of the
National Museum some time earlier.
Hellenistic moulded bowls with relief decoration, commonly called
‘Megarian” bowls, gained much popularity in the 2,ld and lst centuries B.C.
They became one of the most characteristic categories of clay vessels from this
period. Although the name introduced by Otto Benndorf2 was proved wrong
long time ago, it has not been completely rejected because we still lack a short
term denominating the naturę of this group of pottery. Its fuli name,
introduced by Susan Rotroff, is: “Hellenistic hemispherical mold madę ceramic
relief bowls”, shorter “Hellenistic mold madę relief bowles”.5 They are
commonly known as “mold madę bowls” (although sometimes there are also
' The results of these works were published in: K. Michałowski, Mirmeki, Wykopaliska odcinka
polskiego w r. 1956, Warsaw 1958; V.F. Gaydukevich, Mirmekiy. Sonetskie raskopki v 1956 g.
1934-1956, Warsaw 1959; Z. Sztetyłlo, Mirmeki. Wykopaliska odcinka polskiego w r. 1957,
Warsaw 1976.
2 O. Benndorf, Griechische und Sizilische Vasenbilder, Berlin 1869-1883, pp. 117-118.
3 S.I. Rotroff, Hellenistic Pottery. Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls, (The Athenian Agora,
XXII), Princeton, New Jersey, 1982, pp. 2-3.
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Relief ("Megctrian") Bowls
in the National
Museum in Warsaw
In 1956, after a break of about a dozen years caused by the Second World
War and by generał political situation of our country, Professor Kazimierz
Michałowski resumed his excavation works. This time the area explored was
not Egypt, but Crimea, morę precisely Mirmeki - a Greek colony by the sea,
several kilometres from Panticapaeum (Panticapaion), the Capital of Bosporus
State. Professor Michałowski^ mission conducted the excavation works for
two seasons simultaneously with the Soviet mission led by Professor V F.
Gaydukevich.' As a result of these works, some partly preserved materiał,
mostly pottery, found its way to the National Museum in Warsaw. Among
them were the fragments of “Megarian” bowls of particular interest. They will
constitute a topie of a separate article while here we intend to focus on just
five wholly preserved bowls which were added to the collection of the
National Museum some time earlier.
Hellenistic moulded bowls with relief decoration, commonly called
‘Megarian” bowls, gained much popularity in the 2,ld and lst centuries B.C.
They became one of the most characteristic categories of clay vessels from this
period. Although the name introduced by Otto Benndorf2 was proved wrong
long time ago, it has not been completely rejected because we still lack a short
term denominating the naturę of this group of pottery. Its fuli name,
introduced by Susan Rotroff, is: “Hellenistic hemispherical mold madę ceramic
relief bowls”, shorter “Hellenistic mold madę relief bowles”.5 They are
commonly known as “mold madę bowls” (although sometimes there are also
' The results of these works were published in: K. Michałowski, Mirmeki, Wykopaliska odcinka
polskiego w r. 1956, Warsaw 1958; V.F. Gaydukevich, Mirmekiy. Sonetskie raskopki v 1956 g.
1934-1956, Warsaw 1959; Z. Sztetyłlo, Mirmeki. Wykopaliska odcinka polskiego w r. 1957,
Warsaw 1976.
2 O. Benndorf, Griechische und Sizilische Vasenbilder, Berlin 1869-1883, pp. 117-118.
3 S.I. Rotroff, Hellenistic Pottery. Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls, (The Athenian Agora,
XXII), Princeton, New Jersey, 1982, pp. 2-3.
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