• r8-hob-506-10
    HoB 506: Bone roundel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bone roundel

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5351
Museum Inventory No.
5351
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
BI61.027
Material
Bone
Object Type
Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Other Bothroi
B-Grid Coordinates
W19 / S90 *98.85
Findspot
W19 / S90 *98.85
Description
Bone roundel, front side, stylized abstract depiction of two bird heads. The design is incised over ca. three-quarters of the area of the roundel, with two incised lines demarcating the edge of the design. The two eyes of the birds (with a central incised dot in each) are set opposite each other; long curved bills following the curve of the roundel extend from each eye, joining on top of each other at the right side of the roundel; a circular cutting with a central incised dot is placed above the bills. Back side: a central attachment tenon.
Dimensions
Diam. 0.025, H. 0.01.
Comments
See Also
See also: LATW Cat. 55
Bibliography
Greenewalt, “Sardis 1972,” pp. 33–34, fig. 11; Greenewalt, Cahill et al. "Sardis 1986," pp. 166–167, figs. 34–37; Ivantchik 2001a, pp. 74–75; Dusinberre 2010, p. 195, fig. 2; LATW, p. 451, no. 55.
Author
GGD