Five joining fragments of rim, bowl, and base of bird bowl. Plain rim, hemispherical bowl; ring base. Dark brown over burnished clay surface; added red-purple color on the interior. Exterior, painted over rim (paint worn off); metopal band with three horizontal lines below: metopes divided by three vertical lines, from left to right, thick slightly diagonal line, crosshatched lozenge with an outer lozenge; five thick reserved rays, rising from the base; base painted. Interior painted overall except a narrow reserved band at mid-bowl; two parallel horizontal red-purple lines on upper bowl and on the center of bowl.

Hanfmann, “Sardis 1965,” p. 14.

625–600 BC, according to M. Kerschner; 640–620 BC, according to Ü. Güngör (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).