Campanian red-figure terracotta fish plate

Red-figure pottery fish plate from Campania. The design is on a black ground, with white highlights. Round the edge and round the center is a wave pattern.

 

The fish are identified as a sea-perch or bass, a small torpedo, a sargus, and an octopus-like cuttlefish.

 

Campanian, ca. 360-330 BCE Red-figure terracotta.

 

British Museum, London (1872,0603.1)

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