• r8-pc-34-10
    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