Near East
Small dish - Glazed faience
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Small dish decorated with a frieze of pointed circles.
Faience. Diameter 12,4 cm.
3rd-2nd century B.C. Roman oriental Mediterranean Sea.
Well preserved.
Cf. Faïences de l’Antiquité. De L’Egypte à l’Iran., p. 174, nos. 450-451, for near identical examples.
This example is made with Egyptian faience and employs a firing technique commonly used during the late Egypt to early Roman periods.
