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HoB 670: Bone roundel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bone roundel
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- BI18.010
- Material
- Bone
- Object Type
- Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB 63
- Locus
- HoB Area Around Building F and Earlier Levels
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W11 - W14 / S113 - S116 *99.75 - 99.25
- Findspot
- W11-14 / S113-116 *99.75-99.25 ⁓ Building F, found either just over the floor or just outside the west wall
- Description
- Unfinished incised decoration in nomadic style on both sides of hollow bone roundel. One-quarter missing. Front side, slightly incised decoration along with a relatively finished incised curve: to the left of the break, foreleg (with a narrow band of short vertical incised lines), paw missing; deeply incised curve at central part below the roundel, and above it is one hind leg that terminates with a volute (bordered with unfinished narrow band of short vertical incised lines). Back side, two combined vertical lines (one is deeply incised and the other is relatively shallow) probably intended to create stylized legs of an animal.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt, “Sardis 1986,” pp. 166–67.
- Author
- GGD