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was partly rubbed off). At the same time, precision and careful rendering of
particular elements of the calyx should be stressed.

The most interesting element of the whole ornament is the palmette leaf with
characteristically curved petal tips. It is very rare and we always encounter the
same petal layout. In the VogeH's collection from which our object derives
there was also another bowl, of similar shape and dimensions, and, what
is morę important, with a calyx ornament madę with the same stamps,36 37
which suggests that both dishes were produced in the same workshop. Both
lancet-like and palmette leaves are identical but arranged differently (the
seąuence is: two lancet-like, one palmette) and divided with a narrow fern-
like leave. In the upper part the bowl is decorated with a broad frieze filled
with thick garlands and rosettes in the backdrop. The whole is crowned with
an egg and dart frieze. Differentiation of ornament on both bowls makes it
morę possible to ascertain the Warsaw object's attribution. Its form,
rendering of decoration and some elements of it (dolphins, garlands,
rosettes) have analogies among other bowls from the Vogell's collection
signed KIPBEI3/ which allows us to assume that the dish described here
comes from the same workshop. This is confirmed by a fragment of a signed
bowl from Nymphaion decorated with a floral calyx of which the above-
described palmette leaf is a part.38

Analogical leaf can be found on a bowl in one of the graves from the
Hellenistic necropolis in Chersonesus.39 In this case the leaf, being a part of the
floral calyx, appears from behind very tangible acanthus leaves, which touch
at the base and curve up S-like. A bird is placed above each acanthus. The
whole is crowned with four ornamental bends: heart-shaped plaiting, egg and
dart, astragal and another, larger plaiting. Multi-petals rosette rests on the
bottom. A narrow relief ring divides the lower part of decoration from the
upper zones. Similar ring is placed above the ornamental stripes. Another
example is a bowl from the Hellenistic necropolis in Tomis dating from the 2nd
century B.C., decorated on its lower part with a floral calyx of eight palmette
leaves and a frieze of garlands from above (unfortunately, the bottom was not
preserved).40 Also the bowl from the Touvre (cat. no. CA 2287 from the old
collection of Massaksouda), probably originating from Kerch or nearby,
which M.O. Jentel considers to be a product of KIPBEI workshop, has some
common features with our object (form, similar dimensions, modę of
decoration of the dolphins frieze).41 The signed vessels allowed for defining the

36 Zahn, op. cit., p. 57 i 61, cat. no. 15.

37 Zahn, op. cit., cat. nos 14, 20, 21.

38 An unpublished fragment which I had a privilege to see by courtesy of Mrs. O. Sokolova from
the Hermitage to whom I express my heartfelt thanks.

39 G.D. Belov, “Nekropol Khersonesa ellinisticheskoy epokhi”, Archeologicheskiy Sbornik, 19,
1978, 3. 55, il. 7.

40 M. Bucovala, Necropole elenistice la Tomis, Constanta 1967, pp. 76-77, cat. no. 47, d.

41 M.O. Jentel, “Bols a relief du Pont Euxin Septentrional au Musee du Louvre”, EIRENE,
(Prague) 1964, pp.116-117, cat. no. 3.

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