Bowl

This bowl is an example of terra sigillata, a type of ceramic tableware named after the fact that it bears the potter's sigillum or stamp. It was found at the Villa Fortunatus archeological site in Fraga, Huesca, and dates from the 2nd century. The bowl is the traditional reddish color of this type of pottery and has a straight rim, with a decorated, cylindrical body. The stamp is on the foot. The decoration on the body consists of six boxes, or metopes, divided by spike motifs. Each box is also split into two sections, separated diagonally by the same spiked design. The boxes contain alternating designs, so that three of them show a Roman chariot with a rider in the top section, and a running hare in the lower section. The other three depict a hunting cupid at the top and a sitting hare at the bottom.