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    HoB 670: Bone roundel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bone roundel

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
Museum Inventory No.
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
BI18.010
Material
Bone
Object Type
Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB 63
Locus
HoB Area Around Building F and Earlier Levels
B-Grid Coordinates
W11 - W14 / S113 - S116 *99.75 - 99.25
Findspot
W11-14 / S113-116 *99.75-99.25 ⁓ Building F, found either just over the floor or just outside the west wall
Description
Unfinished incised decoration in nomadic style on both sides of hollow bone roundel. One-quarter missing. Front side, slightly incised decoration along with a relatively finished incised curve: to the left of the break, foreleg (with a narrow band of short vertical incised lines), paw missing; deeply incised curve at central part below the roundel, and above it is one hind leg that terminates with a volute (bordered with unfinished narrow band of short vertical incised lines). Back side, two combined vertical lines (one is deeply incised and the other is relatively shallow) probably intended to create stylized legs of an animal.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Greenewalt, “Sardis 1986,” pp. 166–67.
Author
GGD