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    PC 34: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bird bowl

Date
Ca. 650–640 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.176
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bird Bowl
Pottery Ware
East Greek - Bird Bowl
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.4 - 88
Findspot
Zone 2 *88.40–88.00
Description

Fragment of a bird bowl of orange-buff fabric. Concave, body fragment of a bird bowl. A thick band of black below two narrower bands, with the bottom half of a diamond. Two lines, intersecting with the two narrow bands, perhaps bird legs. Interior is streaky.

Ca. 650–640 BC, according to Ümit Gungör (personal communication, Sardis, July 2019).

Dimensions
H. 0.045, W. 0.05, Th 0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR