Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes

Date: 500–700, modern restoration

Geography: Made in, Thebes, Byzantine Egypt

Culture: Coptic

Medium: Terracotta decorated with red, white and dark brown slip

Dimensions: Overall: 20 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (51.8 x 4.8 cm)

Classification: Ceramics

Credit Line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914

Accession Number: 14.6.222

Description:

This platter with its lively fish was found in the ruins of a hermit’s solitary retreat near the Monastery of Epiphanius. Such painted wares were an innovative Egyptian variation on the more elaborate redware with stamped designs that was made farther west in North Africa.


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