3-047-588 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

One Fluted Bowl, 175-75 BC. Additional Info: The bowl is one of a pair of hemispherical bowls with exterior fluting. The flutes are alternately gilded or left silver. The flutes radiate from a central medallion on the bottom featuring a rosette of six leaves formed by a trefoil acanthus combined with a trefoil lotus. The background of the leaves is stippled and the floral is surrounded with a molding of a twisted cable edged with beading. The rim of the bowl has a set of relatively plain moldings, the lower part gilded. There is a Greek inscription on the exterior of the rim: "KTACIMOTOY MAMOTOY <PM ARTEIMOY <PM CAMOTOC" (Of Ktasimotos, son of Mamotos. Year 140. Of Arteimas. Year 140. Of Samus.) The bowl has 66 flutes.