Patera with Figural Handle

4th-3rd century BCE (Late Classical-Hellenistic)

19.7 cm 37 cm 2.7 cm

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A patera is a shallow bowl used for rituals. Around the rim of the bowl is inscribed: ANIOVM (Shuthina, in reverse, meaning "sepulchral"), an inscription indicating the object was meant to be placed in a tomb. The handle is in the form of a muscular nude woman wearing a neckla...

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Browne and Forman Collections; W. H. Forman Collection Sale, London, 1899, no. 134; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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