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HoB 774: Rosette bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Rosette bird bowl
- Date
- Ca. 625-600 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.641
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Rosette Bird Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Bird Bowl
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Refuse Piles
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 - W13 / S110 - S113 *99.1 - 98.9
- Findspot
- W10-13 / S110-113 *99.10-98.90 ⁓ refuse pile, at lower level
- Description
Four joining fragments of rim, body, base, and handle of rosette bird bowl. Plain rim; wide bowl; disc base; only stumps of single loop handle preserved. Red to brown over polished clay surface. Exterior, metope decoration bordered with a line along rim and a band below. Handle zone: stalked rosette in metope with short vertical lines on each side. Central part of bowl missing. Rays rise from foot. Interior: four red lines applied over a matt dark line over light brown slip; the upper red horizontal line, below rim, is applied over an added white band. Center of bowl, two thin lines encircling a single dot over a reserved area.
625–600 BC, according to M. Kerschner.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.091, Diam. of rim 0.17, Diam. of base 0.05, Th. 0.004–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD