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    HoB 775: 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.
P63.508
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.

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Author
GGD