Decorative dish

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Decorative dish, 3rd or 2nd century BC, Tarantine (?) Production, comes from Argos in Acarnania. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium). Made with CapturingReality.

This dish, decorated in high relief, had to have a decorative or votive function, because it is not usable. Red marks indicate that it was painted or golden. The central scene depicts a satyr (pointed ear, quill) and Aphrodite or a nymph at her toilet. Behind the young woman are indeed a water vase (hydrie) and an open mirror and a garment. Placed against the legs of the satyr, a hunting stick (lagobolon). The perimeter is decorated with a band of oves outside and bucranes between rosettes inside. The central décor is reminiscent of the mirror box lids, while the framing patterns mirror those of the metal tableware.

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