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Plate

Date

575–550 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Shallow plate with flaring rim and ring base set near perimeter. Rim perforated with two holes for suspension. Both sides of plate decorated in brown paint with similar fashion. Interior has a large, six pointed star with three concentric circles at its center, surrounded by four concentric circles. Between the star's points are single rows of small zigzags. Outer frieze band contains a stylized wreath - a single concentric circle to which are attached diagonal rows of dots indicating leaves. Four more concentric circles at edge of floor. The flaring rim is ornamented with four concentric circles positioned half way up the side, then three more at the edge, with twelve groups of elevent vertical strokes between them. Eleven strokes fit perfectly between the two rim perforations. Exterior decoration almost identical but with four circles at the star's center, zigzags omitted between star points, wreath with parallel (not diverging) rows of dots indicating leaves, an additional row of vertical strokes on the rim. Eleven strokes are applied for each group but on this side there are fifteen groups in each of the two rows. Spiral wheel marks visible in inner tondo.

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