One Conical Bowl
175–75 B.C.
One of a pair of conical bowls. On the interior rim is a rounded molding, grooved at the lower edge. There is a Greek inscription on the exterior edge: KOTEOYC MHTPOC OPEAC, Belonging to Kotes, [priest] of the mountain mother (Theodossiev 2001, however, takes the name as nominative).
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