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    HoB 779: Bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bird bowl

Date
Ca. 650-600 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.433
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
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
W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 *99.5 - 99.2
Findspot
W11-13 / S103-104 *99.50-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
Description

Body fragment of bird bowl. Red over burnished clay (exterior) and dark brown (interior). Exterior, standing ray. Interior, single horizontal reserved band with a single matt dark band above and below over dark brown slip.

650–600 BC, according to N. Aytaçlar.

Dimensions
L. 0.052, W. 0.051, Th. 0.005–0.009.
Comments
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Bibliography
Author
GGD