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    PC 43: Figural terracotta of a bird. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Figural terracotta of a bird

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.110
Material
Terracotta
Object Type
Figural Terracotta
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.8
Findspot
Zone 2 *88.80
Description

Slightly concave body fragment of a terracotta bird. A cream slip on the exterior with an oblique crosshatched pattern painted in black. Within most diamonds created by the crosshatching, a painted black dot. Interior a gray color. Made in two pieces: the outer part is partially broken away, so that one can see thumbprints on the inner layer. A second, finer layer was then applied. (Total thickness of wall 0.004 m.) The piece is not round. Perhaps not local.

Compare HoB 642, a terracotta bird from HoB, where the dots within the crosshatching are red.

Dimensions
H. 0.0224, L. 0.0477, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR