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Paintings of fish on plates

Paintings of fish on plates.jpg In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only eventThumbnailsPainting of fish on platesIn the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only eventThumbnailsPainting of fish on platesIn the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only eventThumbnailsPainting of fish on platesIn the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only eventThumbnailsPainting of fish on platesIn the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only eventThumbnailsPainting of fish on plates

Crenilabrus mediterraneus.
Uranoscopus scaber?

In Attica, too, was early developed a characteristic and closely accurate type of representation of marine forms, and this attained a wider vogue in Southern Italy in the fourth century. From the latter period a number of dishes and vases have come down to us bearing a large variety of fish forms, portrayed with an exactness that is interesting in view of the attention to marine creatures in the surviving literature of Aristotelian origin