Phiale (Shallow Bowl for Pouring Ritual Libations)
300-250 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, Calenian relief ware
- Classification
- Vessel
- Dimensions
- 3.8 × 19.3 × 19.3 cm (1 1/2 × 7 5/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Cales
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through The Antiquarian Society
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., black vessels like this one (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels, while others have detailing that is molded or incised. Regardless, they would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
