A ROMAN ALABASTER PATERA

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN ALABASTER PATERA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Finely-sculpted in imitation of a metal prototype, the shallow bowl with gently sloping sides, the rounded rim overhanging on the exterior, on a splayed ring foot, the cylindrical upward-curving handle bisected by a triple-grooved band, with a foliate handle-plate where it merges with the bowl, and terminating in the head of a ram with underslung horns defined by incised hatching
12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) long

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Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired circa 1960.

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For a similar example, perhaps from the same workshop, excavated at Begram, see no. 175 in Hiebert and Cambon, eds., Afghanistan, Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. Many of the objects from Begram were not locally made. Some were imported into Bactria from the Greco-Roman world to the west, especially from Chersonesus (Black Sea) and Alexandria, Egypt, but also from India to the east. The material and style of this rare alabaster patera suggests Alexandria as the source, perhaps as early as the late Hellenistic period.