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HoB 286: East Greek bird skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
East Greek bird kotyle
- Date
- Ca. 700-660 BC., Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.435
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bird Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek Geometric
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - to *96.10
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W21 - W25 / S117.5 - S119 *96.1
- Findspot
- W21-25 / S117.5-119 To *96.10
- Description
- Two joining fragments of the wall of a buff-colored cup. Panel with lozenges near top. Then two horizontal lines, with a zigzag below and at least three more horizontal lines. Vertical lines painted at left. Interior: traces of black paint. Bird skyphos, “rotbraun gemalt” (Cf. Walter 1968, no. 268 and p. 40 for zigzag decoration).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.035, W. 0.058, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- M. Kerschner (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016) calls it an early bird kotyle, although of a different fabric and slip. The use of zigzags rather than butterflies suggests that it is not one of the earlier types. He dates it in the first third of the seventh century or a bit earlier. But this could be intrusive, as the excavator said it was “apparently disturbed by pit.”
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR