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HoB 461: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bird bowl
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.135
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bird Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Bird Bowl
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building L
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W40.5 / S95 floor *97.4
- Findspot
- W40.5 / S95 *97.4 floor
- Description
- Two joining fragments of nicked rim and body of a bird bowl. Exterior, brown over polished clay surface. Below rim, a metopal band with a horizontal band above and three horizontal lines below; each metope divided by three vertical lines, from left to right: bird to right with crosshatched body; two circles on the right of bird, one below and the other in top corner; second metope, lozenge with a crosshatched core. Interior, painted.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.026, Diam. of rim 0.18, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD