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    HoB 634: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bird bowl

Date
Ca. 640-600 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.039
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 D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W20 / S100 - S105 to floor *98.9
Findspot
W15-20 / S100-105 To *98.90, near third floor ⁓ Building D
Description

Five joining fragments of rim, bowl, and base of bird bowl. Plain rim, hemispherical bowl; ring base. Dark brown over burnished clay surface; added red-purple color on the interior. Exterior, painted over rim (paint worn off); metopal band with three horizontal lines below: metopes divided by three vertical lines, from left to right, thick slightly diagonal line, crosshatched lozenge with an outer lozenge; five thick reserved rays, rising from the base; base painted. Interior painted overall except a narrow reserved band at mid-bowl; two parallel horizontal red-purple lines on upper bowl and on the center of bowl.

Hanfmann, “Sardis 1965,” p. 14.

625–600 BC, according to M. Kerschner; 640–620 BC, according to Ü. Güngör (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).

Dimensions
H. 0.065, est. Diam. of rim 0.012–0.13, Diam. of base 0.051, Th. 0.002–0.004.
Comments
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Author
GGD