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HoB 507: 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, 4341
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4341
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BI65.002
- 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
- W24.5 / S112.5 *98.5
- Findspot
- W24.5 / S112.5 *98.5 ⁓ South Side (bothroi)
- Description
- Bone roundel. Incised decoration in nomadic Animal Style. Front side: stylized, abstract depiction of a curled animal. Upper central part: head encircled with a half-circle of short vertical incised lines; eye formed by a small circle with a central incised dot; ear, placed to the right of eye, is circular and has a triangular cut set at the base. From left, one hind leg that terminates in a volute (bordered with a narrow band of short vertical incised lines) lies below a linear tail that ends in a volute. From right, a foreleg with a paw shown as a volute (under a narrow band of short vertical incised lines). A three-quarter circle, encircled with a narrow band of short vertical incised lines and with an incised star at center, is placed between the head and tail. A narrow band of short vertical incised lines borders the underside of the animal at the central lower part of the roundel. Back side: flat.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.043.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: LATW Cat. 54
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1965," pp. 13–14, fig. 9; Greenewalt, “Sardis 1972,” pp. 33–34, fig. 11; Greenewalt, Cahill et al. "Sardis 1986," pp. 166–67, 173 n. 49, figs. 34–37; Ivantchik 2001a, pp. 73–75; Dusinberre 2010, p. 195, fig. 2; LATW, p. 450, no. 54.
- Author
- GGD