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An Antiochene bowl in Cambridge1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Peter J. Callaghan
Peter J. Callaghan
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Summerland Point, NSW
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Abstract

A complete mouldmade ‘Megarian’ bowl, now in the Museum of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge, is here published and attributed to a Syrian or Levantine manufacturer. The Dionysiac iconography, beading, fabric, and paint suggest an Antiochene provenance, and an early or mid-second-century BC date is proposed.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 91 , November 1996 , pp. 369 - 375
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1996

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