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HoB 348: East Greek bird skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
East Greek bird skyphos
- Date
- Ca. 725–675 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.050
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Bird Skyphos
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W15.5 / S101.5 *97
- Findspot
- W15.5 / S101.5 *97.0
- Description
- Bird skyphos with nicked rim and a black band. Fine buff clay. Exterior below band at rim is a metopal frieze with a geometric tree and crosshatched bird separated by vertical lines. Interior painted dark. Both exterior and interior polished.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.055, Diam. of rim 0.17, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- According to Cook and Dupont 1998, dated to 700–675 BC. M. Kerschner (personal communication, 2016) said this piece would be fourth quarter of the eighth century or first quarter of the seventh century; and the fabric would be standard for Teos.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR