Object type
fish plate
Fabric
Roses workshop black varnish
Culture/period
Protohistory and Iberian world
Materials
pottery
Technique
wheel-thrown
Mint
Production date
-300 / -200
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Molí d’Espígol
Township
Tornabous (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Urgell)
Dimensions
44 x 234 mm
Description
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Dish with fine black varnish produced in the ancient Greek colony of Roses (Alt Emporda) between 300-200 BC. It has reserved grooves in the area of the edge and the inner bowl.
This type of dish, called "fish dish" because of the typical decoration of fish on the examples of black varnished Attic pottery, would have been used for consumption (probably collective) or the presentation of solid food, especially fish, for the reason mentioned. The function of the central bowl is not clear; it is speculated that it was a small receptacle for containing a sauce or condiment to accompany the food that was served on the plate; otherwise, it has been proposed that the bowl might have served as a small container / tank designed to collect and concentrate juice or liquid released by the food arranged on the plate.
This dish was found on Floor 24 of the Iberian city of Molí d'Espígol, in the final abandonment level of the settlement around 200 BC
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Omeka ID
1241