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Bird Bowl

Bird bowl. Low ring foot, bowl with rounded profile, lightly nicked rim. Handles restored. Hatched bird in metope, flanked by hatched diamonds in metopes. Mended from fragments; parts of body and both handles restored. Height 0.060 m, diameter 0.125 m.

Author

NDC

B-Grid Coordinates

W20 - W25 / S108 - S110 to *98.70

Comments

A common type of Ionian pottery in the eighth and seventh centuries BC, bird bowls (which are probably drinking cups) are found widely distributed through the Aegean and western Anatolia. Chemical analysis of the clay suggests that most were made at a single location in North Ionia (rather than Rhodes, as was previously believed), but the spot has yet to be identified (Kerschner et al. 1997; Kerschner 2003, 52-54). Fragments are relatively common in strata of the seventh century BC at Sardis; this is one of the few more or less complete examples. The type was succeeded by rosette bowls, such as No. 150.

Date

Seventh century BC, Lydian

Material

Ceramic

Museum

Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7460

Object Type

Pottery

Pottery Shape

Bird Bowl

Pottery Ware

East Greek