Pottery thymiaterion
Composed of a small cassolette mounted on a high stand. In this cassolette incense (thymiama) was burned.
The thymiaterion described here, was probably derived from a bronze model, and presents a cassolette in the form of a shallow cup. The hollow column serving as support is decorated on its entire height by superimposed friezes, presenting a small repertory of the motifs employed in 'ceramica listata'.The decoration extends also to the interior of the cassolette.
Period
Daunian, 3rd century B.C.
Dimension
H.
45.5 cm (17 29⁄32 in)
Private collection, Switzerland, since the late 1980s, listed in an inventory dated 1991
