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bird bowl
Object Type
bird bowl
Museum number
1888,0601.652.b
Description
Fragment of incurving rim and body of North Ionian bird bowl; interior glazed with two bands of added red lined in white; exterior: bird in outline with hatched body, top of ray and part of hatched triangle pointing downwards at rim; top of rim glazed. Buff clay with much white included matter.
Cultures/periods
North Ionian
Archaic Greek
Production date
620BC-600BC
Production place
Made in:
North Ionia
(North)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Naukratis
Materials
pottery
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Thickness:
0.46 - 0.59 centimetres
Diameter:
16 centimetres
(circa (rim))
Height:
5.80 centimetres
Width:
6.60 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Price 1924 / Pottery of Naukratis
(p. 185, fig. 7)
Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece
(p. 255, no. 3)
Johnston 1978 / Pottery from Naukratis: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the 11th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
(no. 44)
Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
(GG.078)
Schlotzhauer 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus Naukratis
(p. 78, Nau 10, pl. 3b)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
bird
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1888
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1888,0601.652.b