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A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Fish Plate

340-320 BCE

Attributed to the Perrone-Phrixos Group Greek; Tarentum (now Taranto), Apulia, Italy

Taranto

Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. The red-figure plates were used, as their decoration suggests, for serving seafood, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. Tasty juices pooled in the central concavity, which may also have contained sauces.

terracotta, red-figure

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

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