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HoB 506: Bone roundel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bone roundel
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5351
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5351
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BI61.027
- Material
- Bone
- Object Type
- Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Other Bothroi
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W19 / S90 *98.85
- Findspot
- W19 / S90 *98.85
- Description
- Bone roundel, front side, stylized abstract depiction of two bird heads. The design is incised over ca. three-quarters of the area of the roundel, with two incised lines demarcating the edge of the design. The two eyes of the birds (with a central incised dot in each) are set opposite each other; long curved bills following the curve of the roundel extend from each eye, joining on top of each other at the right side of the roundel; a circular cutting with a central incised dot is placed above the bills. Back side: a central attachment tenon.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.025, H. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: LATW Cat. 55
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt, “Sardis 1972,” pp. 33–34, fig. 11; Greenewalt, Cahill et al. "Sardis 1986," pp. 166–167, figs. 34–37; Ivantchik 2001a, pp. 74–75; Dusinberre 2010, p. 195, fig. 2; LATW, p. 451, no. 55.
- Author
- GGD