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Attic Red-Figure Phiale Mesomphalos

Date

about 500–490 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Black-gloss exterior. Band of tongues with dots around the rim. Coral-red interior. The (missing) omphalos is encircled by an inner ring of red-figure sideways circumscribed palmettes and lotuses and an outer ring of running black spirals with short black strokes on reserved ground. Restored from fragments. Interior of one fragment discolored to black.

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