Abstract:

The term Megarian bowl, is commonly used between the modern archaeologists. This means Hellenistic, hemispherical, moldmade bowls without foot andhandles, decorated all over exterior surface with relief figures and designs. In Hellenistic times called emitomos by the ancient Greeks, was an invention of Athenianpotters. Soon, local imitations sprang up on many sites, e.g. Korinth, Sparta,Pergamon, Kyme, Ephesos, Antiokhia on the Orontes. From the third century B.C.,they have been used as drinking vessels instead of kantharoi. Megarian bowls arenever reported from the contexts together with the Early Roman pottery.In ancient Phokaia, the Megarian bowls has been found at the top of the Maltepe Tumulus. In this study, the material has been grouped by the type of decoration : Imbricate bowls, net pattern bowls, concentric semi-circle bowls, figured andfloral bowls. The clay of the Phokaian material, is always micaceous and morecoarse-grained than the Attic one. The glaze is always matt grayish and orangebrownish colour. Large part of the fragments found at Phokaia, belongs to the socalled Delian type. They must have been produced in workshops of Phokaia. Thereare no imported fragments from Attica. The Megarian bowls of Phokaia, started tooccur from the beginning of the second century B.C. and continued to use until theend of the first century B.C

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