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    PC 49: East Greek bird bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

East Greek bird bowl

Date
Early 7th c BC?, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.101
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bird Bowl
Pottery Ware
East Greek - Bird Bowl
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.38
Findspot
Zone 2 *89.38
Description

Rim, body, and one handle of a large and deep East Greek bird bowl. Nicked inturned rim. Reserved panel has three vertical lines near handle zone that border two nesting diamonds, the center one diagonally crosshatched. The front of the body and one leg of a bird in the central reserved panel, framed by horizontal and vertical lines. A zigzag near bottom of reserved panel, and then three horizontal lines above the solid black lower body. A second fragment preserves the beginning of the second handle and the three vertical lines and part of a diamond. Triangular reserved area beneath the loop handle. Interior black glazed.

Early seventh century?

Dimensions
H. 0.077, est. Diam. 0.014, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR