Probably EC. Wall fragment. Bird (possibly a siren) on the right facing to left, preserved from upper wing to feet. In front of the bird is a pendent lotus. Hasty incision is used for the leg joints of the bird, the contour of the wing, and the wing bar. There are white dots on the wing bar and added red on the wing covert. On the lotus, white dots decorate the base of the petals and the edges of the sepals. Added red appears on both the calyx and the central petal. Quick incisions are used for details. No fillers remain in the field. Glaze: glossy, chocolate brown to black, with some thin areas of orange. Clay: fine, smooth, and slightly powdery. Orange-buff. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink).

The lotus is a careless rendering of a finer type that is found occasionally in Corinthian work. A similar bird appears on a fragment of a Corinthian alabastron found at Old Smyrna above the Alyattes destruction level (a mixture of TR, EC, and MC; see Anderson, “Old Smyrna” 150, pl. 25, no. 145).

Another small wall fragment with part of a lotus (uninv. HoB 3/viii/65) was found at HoB W 3.00--7.00/S 90.00--99.00 *98.60--*98.30. White dots appear both on the edges of the sepals and at the base of the petals. There is added red on one petal. The glaze is worn. Date: EC. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink).

A small fragment (P87.81:9489), found at BF E 684.00--689.00/S 328.00--333.00 ca. *182.70, has the leg of a bird and rosettes of a somewhat later and more careless type in the field. The glaze has vanished. Date: EC.