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    HoB 714: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bird bowl

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.059
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 - Pot Hoard A at *99.05
B-Grid Coordinates
W19 / S99 *99.05
Findspot
W19 / S99 *99.05 ⁓ south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
Description
Rim and body fragment of bird bowl. Plain rim. Brown over smooth clay surface. Exterior, thin band along rim; below, metopal decoration: three vertical lines, pendent triangle, back of bird. Interior, painted.
Dimensions
L. 0.034, W. 0.036, Th. 0.003–0.004.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD