Fish Plate
350-330 BCE
Attributed to the Dotted Stripe Painter Greek; Campania, Italy
Campania
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figured plate was used, as its 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