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    HoB 777: 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.
P63.436
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 - Refuse Piles
B-Grid Coordinates
W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 *99.5 - 99.2
Findspot
W11-13 / S103-104 *99.50-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
Description
Base fragment of bird bowl. Ring base. Dark red over cream slip (exterior) and red (interior). Exterior, over base, lower parts of pendent ray; base and under base painted red. Interior, painted red.
Dimensions
Diam. of base 0.04, Th. of lower body 0.003.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD