• Typology: T40, large footed bowl.
• 

• Date: V B.C. ?
• General description:
  • Made of hard light brown coarse clay.
  • Dimensions 42 to 43 cm of diameter, 13 to 16 cm high and 2 cm thick.
• Detailed description:
  • -Rim: 3 cm flat rim 2 cm thick, brimmed ending 3 cm thick and out lipped.
  • -Cup: hemispheroid with concentric circles on the inner face can indicate it has been turned on a wheel.
  • -Base: a standing ring of 18 cm of diameter and 7 cm of height sloped over 45º. One can see and even touch the print of four fingers. These marks were evidently made by the potter who carried the bowl before it was hardened by fire.
• Note:
  • This earth ware seems familiar with the brazier described in "Pots & Pans of classical Athens".
• Sites on land:
• Sites underwater: Tripoli (Lebanon).
• Private collection: Raymond Abdulnour (Lebanon).

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