Rosette bird bowl
- Date
- Ca. 625–600 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.508
- 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
- W14 - W15 / S106 - S109 *99.7 - 99.2
- Findspot
- W14-15 / S106-109 *99.70-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
- Description
Seven joining and nonjoining fragments of rim and body of rosette bird bowl. Plain rim; wide bowl. Brown over polished clay surface. Exterior, 1. rim and bowl fragment: metopal band with a horizontal line along rim, and a thicker one below: three pendent small triangles, bird at left facing right with a crosshatched body and long tail, pendent semicircle with a central dot above and a circle with a central dot below, three vertical lines. Stalked dot-rosette filling the area of a single metope, three vertical lines; below, single pendent ray. 2. Rim fragment: partially preserved two dots of a dot-rosette, three vertical lines, single pendent triangle, tail of a bird. 3. Rim and upper body fragment: four pendent triangles, lower body (crosshatched) and legs of a bird to right, horizontal band below; 4. Lower body fragment: upper part of a standing ray. Interior, three red horizontal bands with a single horizontal white line above and below over a plain dark painted surface.
625–600 BC, according to M. Kerschner.
- Dimensions
H. 0.066, Diam. of rim 0.2, Th. 0.003–0.005;
Fragment #1: L. 0.047, W. 0.031, Th. 0.005;
#2. L. 0.035, W. 0.021, Th. 0.004–0.005;
#3: L. 0.047, W. 0.027, Th. 0.004–0.005;
#4: L. 0.005, W. 0.004, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD