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Bird bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Bird bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Bird bowl. Profile view of side without bird. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bird Bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 101
- Date
- 7th c BC., Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7460
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7460
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.161
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bird Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W25 / S108 - S110 to *98.70
- Description
- Bird bowl. Low ring foot, bowl with rounded profile, lightly nicked rim. Handles restored. Hatched bird in metope, flanked by hatched diamonds in metopes. Mended from fragments; parts of body and both handles restored. Height 0.060 m, diameter 0.125 m.
- Comments
- A common type of Ionian pottery in the eighth and seventh centuries BC, bird bowls (which are probably drinking cups) are found widely distributed through the Aegean and western Anatolia. Chemical analysis of the clay suggests that most were made at a single location in North Ionia (rather than Rhodes, as was previously believed), but the spot has yet to be identified (Kerschner et al. 1997; Kerschner 2003, 52-54). Fragments are relatively common in strata of the seventh century BC at Sardis; this is one of the few more or less complete examples. The type was succeeded by rosette bowls, such as No. 150.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”.
- Bibliography
- Author
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