A Published Megarian Ware Pottery Bowl, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE Sculpture - Metal many Roman reliefs and statuary

many Roman reliefs and statuary were originally painted in vivid colors

such as “Toniná Monument 171”

This finely carved fragmentary upper section of a New Kingdom limestone stele depicts a deceased male figure seated before an offering table

a gift to celebrate a special occasion

Surgical instruments such as the present example have been recovered from hospitals

A Published Megarian Ware Pottery Bowl, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE Sculpture - Metal many Roman reliefs and statuaryA fine orange slipware pottery hemispherical bowl molded on the exterior with an elaborate relief decoration of palmette leaves alternating with stylized standing human figures and elongated amphorae, and a rosette in the center of the base. Center band of horizontal bars. Relief decorated pottery became more popular than painted pottery during the Hellenistic period. The name Megarian was first given to this type of mold made relief bowl in the late