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HoB 601: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bird bowl
- Date
- Ca. 650–600 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.009
- 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 I - Building B and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W3 / S99 - S103 *99.45 - 98.8
- Findspot
- W2-3 / S99-103 *99.45-98.80 ⁓ south of Building B
- Description
Rim and body fragment of bird bowl. Red paint over burnished clay surface. Exterior, metopal band: metopes divided by three vertical lines, left metope a crosshatched lozenge with an outer lozenge. Interior, painted.
650–600 BC, according to N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 2016).
- Dimensions
- L. 0.036, W. 0.043, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD