Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (42.2001)

relief pottery from 3rd phase, dating between the second half of the 2nd and
beginning of the l5tcentury B.C.35 This motif was probably based upon ivy
ornament with berries.

When no analogies of border ornament can be found among fragments
associated with a specific workshop, bottom lacks decoration and similar
imbricate pattern can be found in several workshops, one can only State
generally that the bowl was produced in an Ionian workshop, possibly that
of Heraios. This workshop, which Laumonier put near the end of his list, is
one of the four which functioned as late as in the lst century B.C. Dating of
the bowl between the second half of the 2nd and beginning of the lst century
B.C., confirmed by dating of the fragment from Egina, seems correct.

4. Inv. no. 198564 (the other number: 53:08, ill. 4)

Height 6 cm, bowl diameter 10 cm, rim diameter 11.5 cm, medallion
diameter 2.8 cm. Orange-brown clay, glaze of metalik shine, ranging from
light brown to almost black. State of preservation: wholly preserved dish;
two rim fragments missing, replaced with coloured materiał; slant crack
running from the rim's lip to the lower part of the body; a chip on the outer
side of the rim.

The bowl is smallish, of hemispherical shape, with flattened bottom and
spread rim. The ornament, rendered in deep relief, clearly stands out from
the backdrop. The bottom is decorated with a rosette of six heart-like petals
with elear central vein. The rosette is surrounded with a circle of dots and
a very thin, almost invisible ring. The wali decoration consists of two
registers of almost identical width. In the lower part we find a floral calyx
combined of lancet-like leaves placed in 8 + 8 lay out, with characteristic
leaves which remind an oblong palmette. The lancet-like leaves have
tangible surface, profiled with longitudinal carvings, while the palmette
leaves, which partly cover them, consist of seventeen petals: the vertical,
central one is thicker, while the rest are slanting, joined in pairs, placed one
on top of the other, with characteristically curved tips: some are curved
scroll-like upward or downward, some only rounded. The upper part of the
walls is decorated with a frieze of eight calyx craters on stemmed foot, with
three dolphins on both sides facing one another. The dolphin on the left is
larger, the two on the right, one above another, are smaller. It should be
noted that the artist found no space for a dolphin figurę next to one of the
craters. Both stripes are divided with a double ring. In the upper part of the
dish, where the moulded bowl touches the rim produced on a potter's
wheel, one can notice lack of proper finishing (on one hand, the surface was
not sufficiently burnished, on the other the upper fragment of the decoration

33 R. Smetana-Scherrer, Spatklassische und hellenistische Keramik, Alt-Agina, vol. II, 1, Mainz
am Rhein 1982, p. 82, pl. 49, cat. no. 654.

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