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HoB 664: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bird bowl
- Date
- Ca. 650–625 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.493
- 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 F
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W7 - W9 / S106 - S111 *99.5 - 99.1
- Findspot
- W7-9 / S106-111 *99.50-99.10 ⁓ Building F
- Description
Rim and body fragment of bird bowl. Black over clay surface. Plain slightly nicked rim. Exterior, horizontal band over rim; metopal band: from left to right, partially preserved crosshatched lozenge; three vertical dividing bands; filling ornament (pendent crosshatched triangle), bird to right (head not preserved), body crosshatched, filling ornament (circle with a central dot); three horizontal lines; band. Interior, painted.
650–625 BC, according to N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).
- Dimensions
- L. 0.037, Diam. of rim 0.14, W. 0.064, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt, Cahill et al. "Sardis 1986," p. 173, n. 49.
- Author
- GGD