Bowl
| Artist | |
| Name | Unknown |
| Basic Info | |
| Period | Cycladic period, Early |
| Created in | Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Cyclades |
| Century | 3rd millennium BCE |
| Culture | Cycladic |
| Dimensions | 4.5 x 13.7 cm (1 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.) |
| Harvard Museum | |
| Department | Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics |
| Division | Asian and Mediterranean Art |
| Contact | am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu |
Context
7 Cycladic Bowl One side of bowl has been cracked in numerous fragments and repaired. This kind of simple bowl without feet, handles, or lugs is the shape most frequently executed in marble during the Early Cycladic period. In the majority of examples, as here, the rim is slightly rounded and set off on the interior by means of a shallow groove. There are many examples in varous sizes and proportrions, thirty such bowls being recorded in a private collection in Athens; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 1962.180, is of similar dimensions. The bowl found on Thera with the two Karlsruhe harpers seems related, if more elegant (Thimme, Getz-Preziosi, 1977, pp. 318, 508, no. 299). For a complete discussion of the chronology of these bowls see Getz-Preziosi, 1987, pp. 67-74. Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson