🌟A hint about our forthcoming episode!
Later this week, we’ll be heading back in time to 393 BCE in ancient Rome. What is going on with Camillus? And (very importantly) will his golden bowl, offered as an apology to Apollo for forgetting his vow after the Roman conquest of Veii, make it to Delphi? All these details and many more coming your way soon!
This bowl is a phiale—libation bowl—from Greek and dates to C4th–C3rd BCE. It is NOT the bowl the Romans made for Apollo but it gives a sense of what such an artefact may have looked like.
![Description from the Met: “Inscribed on the base sketchily in Greek, "Pausi[ ]," and more deeply engraved in Punic (Carthaginian) characters, an indication of weight. This libation bowl, decorated with bees, acorns, and beechnuts, is worked in repoussé. Phialai decorated with acorns were being made by the late C6th BCE and must have been traditional. Acorns could also be seen on the phialai held by the caryatids of the Erechtheum on the Akropolis in Athens, as we learn from Roman copies found in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli.”](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/817/007/524/101/373/original/172f32f19f8e808d.png)
