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HoB 449: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bird bowl
- Date
- Ca. 675–650 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.146
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bird Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Bird Bowl
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building K
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W32 - W37 / S95 - S98 *98.6 - 98.3
- Findspot
- W32-37 / S95-98 *98.6-98.3, associated with floor ⁓ Building K
- Description
Rim and body fragment of bird bowl. Nicked rim. Dark brown over well-burnished clay surface. Exterior, metopal band with a single line along nicked rim above and with a horizontal row of dots (bordered by two horizontal lines above and below). Metopes divided by three vertical lines, a small circle on the left and a crosshatched triangle with an outer frame on the right. Interior, painted.
M. Kerschner suggests a date of 675–650 BC (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.033, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD