Late EPC. Fragment of rim and upper body. Exterior: two horizontal lines of glaze at the rim. In the handle zone, a bird faces to right next to a series of vertical bars. The type is transitional between the soldier bird and the wirebird. It has the kind of tail common to the soldier bird, but the single bent leg typical of the wirebird. The vertical bars, of which fourteen remain, stay well within the confines of the framing horizontal lines and are evenly spaced. Eight horizontal lines are preserved in the upper body. Interior glazed. Clay: hard and fine.

The only example of either soldier birds or wirebirds yet found at Sardis, this piece dates before the true wirebird described by Coldstream: a bird with a single bent leg and a blob-shaped body that appears at the end of EPC (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 11). Two bases from EPC kotylai were also found in the same zone at PC (see Cor 7, Cor 8).