Bird’s Head
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 2
- Date
- Third Millenium BC?, Early Bronze Age
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S64.036
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Prehistoric, Animal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- MTE
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E63 - E68 / S153 - S158 *107.10 - 106.60
- Findspot
- MTE upper trench, S and above Lydian Trench area, in mixed fill.
- Description
- The round eye is made with a little chisel, the mouth by sawing and thin file or with abrasive. There were three strokes on the left of the neck to characterize feathers. This is not a Greek or Roman piece but either early Lydian or more likely Bronze Age.
- Condition
- Greyish very large-grained marble, brittle. Discolored green. Right side of head and beak broken off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.039; diam. break at neck 0.013
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Hanfmann and Ramage, “Sculpture from Sardis” (this entry).
- Author
- GMAH