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HoB 642: Terracotta bird (?) figurine. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Terracotta bird (?) figurine
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T65.004
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Figural Terracotta
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W17 - W20 / S101 - S104 *99 - 98.7
- Findspot
- W17-20 / S101-104 *99.00-98.70 ⁓ third floor of Building D
- Description
- Fragmentary bird (?) figurine, broken at top, below, and on back. Possibly molded in two pieces. Upper part of body and neck preserved. Black and added red over creamy white slip. Upper body divided by a red line into two areas, each crosshatched in black; little red spots on breast and neck; traces of red paint on the lower edges. Cf. PC 43.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.075, W. 0.049.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1965," p. 14.
- Author
- GGD