DOI Artikel:
Grzegrzółka, Sabina: Relief ("Megarian") Bowls in the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0112
bowl (inv. no. 198564) differs from that of the above-describecł vessels: the
bottom is only slightly separated and the rim is turned out. The bowl is
characterised by a deep, clearly visible relief. AU these features, together with
the character of decoration and its composition remind objects created in
workshops from the Pergamon circle (Pergamon, Smyrna, Cumae). This
brings us to the last bowl. Its form is similar to the first three, but its ąuality
and clay colour are different. The clay used is grey, fine-grained but with thick,
separate inclusions. This type of materiał is characteristic for local products
from the workshops from the Black Sea area.
1. Inv. no. 198565 (the other number: 136:33, ill. 1)
Height 5.7 cm, maximum diameter 13.8 cm, rim diameter 12.6 cm,
bottom diameter 3.9 cm. The clay is fine-grained orange-light brown with
particles of mica, glaze is mat, brown but darker than clay, in some places dark
brown. State of preservation: the bowl consists of many parts glued together.
There are some pieces missing on the rim's edge and along the glue linę. Tiny
chips of glaze and rubbed off surface, especially in the top part of the dish.
A bowl of moderate height, in the shape of flattened hemisphere with a
narrow rim, slightly turned inside. The bottom is surrounded by a broad ring
and decorated with a rosette consisting of eight heart-shaped petals with a
visible central rib and divided stamens crowned with broad tip. The rosette's
centre is emphasised by a bold button. The lower part of the walls is
decorated with an imbricate pattern consisting of five rows of oval petals
with plastic surface (both the edges and the central ribs are strongly marked,
with grooves along those lines and convex surface in between). There are
two narrow ornament friezes in the upper part: one below the egg and dart
pattern, another above the rectangular rosettes with eight pointed petals (the
diagonal petals are longer, the rest are shorter). Each frieze is separated by
narrow rings. Clear burnishing tracę is yisible above the decoration.
The decoration is neatly madę from the point of view of particular motifs
and the arrangement of the whole. The ornament, especially in its lower part,
is marked tangibly, clearly separated from the backdrop. The scales of
subseąuent upper rows are placed in the background among the scales from
the lower row, so that their number is identical at each level (14), but their size
varies. Smali transgressions are notable only in the frieze of the egg and dart
pattern, where the particular elements are not always placed on the same level.
Many analogies with the described decoration are found among objects
discovered on Delos. A bowl fragment (its bottom part was not preserved)
from the Monogram ® Workshop is decorated identically (the same
imbricate pattern, series XVIII B, together with the same friezes above).14
Laumonier, op. cit., pl. 41, no. 175.
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bottom is only slightly separated and the rim is turned out. The bowl is
characterised by a deep, clearly visible relief. AU these features, together with
the character of decoration and its composition remind objects created in
workshops from the Pergamon circle (Pergamon, Smyrna, Cumae). This
brings us to the last bowl. Its form is similar to the first three, but its ąuality
and clay colour are different. The clay used is grey, fine-grained but with thick,
separate inclusions. This type of materiał is characteristic for local products
from the workshops from the Black Sea area.
1. Inv. no. 198565 (the other number: 136:33, ill. 1)
Height 5.7 cm, maximum diameter 13.8 cm, rim diameter 12.6 cm,
bottom diameter 3.9 cm. The clay is fine-grained orange-light brown with
particles of mica, glaze is mat, brown but darker than clay, in some places dark
brown. State of preservation: the bowl consists of many parts glued together.
There are some pieces missing on the rim's edge and along the glue linę. Tiny
chips of glaze and rubbed off surface, especially in the top part of the dish.
A bowl of moderate height, in the shape of flattened hemisphere with a
narrow rim, slightly turned inside. The bottom is surrounded by a broad ring
and decorated with a rosette consisting of eight heart-shaped petals with a
visible central rib and divided stamens crowned with broad tip. The rosette's
centre is emphasised by a bold button. The lower part of the walls is
decorated with an imbricate pattern consisting of five rows of oval petals
with plastic surface (both the edges and the central ribs are strongly marked,
with grooves along those lines and convex surface in between). There are
two narrow ornament friezes in the upper part: one below the egg and dart
pattern, another above the rectangular rosettes with eight pointed petals (the
diagonal petals are longer, the rest are shorter). Each frieze is separated by
narrow rings. Clear burnishing tracę is yisible above the decoration.
The decoration is neatly madę from the point of view of particular motifs
and the arrangement of the whole. The ornament, especially in its lower part,
is marked tangibly, clearly separated from the backdrop. The scales of
subseąuent upper rows are placed in the background among the scales from
the lower row, so that their number is identical at each level (14), but their size
varies. Smali transgressions are notable only in the frieze of the egg and dart
pattern, where the particular elements are not always placed on the same level.
Many analogies with the described decoration are found among objects
discovered on Delos. A bowl fragment (its bottom part was not preserved)
from the Monogram ® Workshop is decorated identically (the same
imbricate pattern, series XVIII B, together with the same friezes above).14
Laumonier, op. cit., pl. 41, no. 175.
110