|
|
Head and tail missing.
A bird sitting with folded wings.
Clay: Fine, buff, slightly micaceous, retaining traces of white paint. Hand-made, solid, with vent jabbed beneath. Assembly Place, filling of ... Uncertain, but before the mid-fourth century B.C ... Bird |
Head, feet, and one side missing.
A bird with folded wings. The feathers indicated by careful incisions.
Clay: Fine, dull, buff, retaining traces of white paint. Pitted with air holes. Moulded in two ... Probably early second century A.D ... Bird |
The feet were made separately and attached, they have broken away. Probably hollow, no vent.
Probably a common hen, with neck outstretched. The neck feathers indicated by channeling.
Clay: Fine, buff ... Probably early fourth century B.C ... Bird |
Flying bird.
Head, most of the tail, and ends of wings broken off.
Hole for suspension through the middle. Cistern. Leica, XXXIV-60 ... April 1938 ... Flying bird.
Head, most of the tail, and ends of wings broken off.
|
Complete.
A small plump bird with spreading tail, rather long thick neck, stumpy legs and a comb. An extra "leg" under the tail helps him to stand.
Handmade.
Red clay. Sacrificial Pit X, red fill under ... 12 June 1939 ... A small plump bird with spreading tail, rather long thick neck, stumpy legs and a comb. |
| Broken above and below.
Preserved most of body, part of both legs and tail of bird. On the left side near the top of the fragment a double cutting, apparently for the attachment of a wing. The first cutting ... Late Archaic period ... Bird Fragment |
Head, neck and right wing missing.
On stand with slightly concave base. Wings to sides. Fragments of other examples from same deposit suggest it was of long-necked variety, head and neck being much as ... November 1959 ... Bird Figurine |
| A large dove on a high circular base.
Tail and some of back missing.
Gouged details. Ample traces of white on surface, and faint traces of other colors.
Red clay. Well. Container 110. 617 Leica, color ... 28 May 1938 ... Bird Figurine |
Part of the head of a bird.
Traces of red paint on white. Color preserved on the beak.
Micaceous buff clay. Wall trench of Building K (kappa). Leica ... 26 February 1936 ... Part of the head of a bird.
Traces of red paint on white. |
Neck and head of a big-billed bird (goose?).
White painted, traces of pink color on bill.
ADDENDA: Blond clay. Cybele cistern.
1st c. B.C. Leica, 80-78-8 ... 9-15 May 1935 ... Neck and head of a big-billed bird (goose?).
White painted, traces of pink color on bill.
|
The front part of the right side of a bird.
Broken all around.
White slip and red paint traces.
Coarse hard reddish clay.
Cf. T 3092. Catalogued 1953. In fill with circular cornice; IV century A. D. 497 ... 12 March 1936 ... The front part of the right side of a bird.
Broken all around.
|
Standing bird with upspread wings: siren?
Broken off at the neck; the head missing; the claws chiped, and the sides of the wings. The back irregularly flattened; perhaps was attached to something.
Remains ... 15 July 1947 ... Standing bird with upspread wings: siren?
|
The fragment preserves the legs of a child and the bird's wing.
Child riding a bird.
Broken all around.
Coarse pinkish-buff clay; red-orange on child, white with red spots and stripes on bird. Late Roman ... 27 February 1935 ... Child and Bird Figurine Fragment |
| Broken all around and at back.
Surface weathered.
Pair of crossed hands holding a bird upright.
Pentelic marble. From circled marbles. 766 80-18-3 ... 11 July 1978 ... Pair of crossed hands holding a bird upright.
Pentelic marble. |
| Painted bird figurine with spreading base.
Long neck and tail. The species not easily identifiable.
Red and blue stripes on white ground. Blue painted eyes.
Probably some kind of water-bird.
Cf. Roes ... 31 March 1932 ... Painted bird figurine with spreading base.
... Probably some kind of water-bird.
Cf. Roes (1931), p. 122, fig. 127. |
Parts of three sides, front, back preserved.
Subject seems to be tail feathers of a bird.
Smooth back.
Pinkish-yellow fabric.
ADDENDA Dove figurine (?). Well in Room 6, dumped upper fill; layer I. 2047 ... 21 August 1973 ... Subject seems to be tail feathers of a bird.
Smooth back.
|
| Flat-bottomed legless bird with long beak and fan tail.
Red stripes across neck and chest, along beak, and top of head, and along sides.
St. Andrew 's cross on back, the tail end filled in solid and incised ... 16 March 1935 ... Flat-bottomed legless bird with long beak and fan tail.
|
Missing: heads of boy and bird, part of the base.
A child, resting on his doubled left leg, throws his arms around some object, probably a goose, standing by his left side. His mantle is thrown loosely ... Early fourth century B.C ... Missing: heads of boy and bird, part of the base.
|
| The tip of the left wing broken off, and the tail chipped.
Finished smooth below, to stand without feet. The back and wings stained and encrusted as if with iron corrosion.
Handmade. Unglazed.
Pinish buff ... 1 March 1933 ... Bird Figurine |
| Broken all around. Head of bird broken off; forearm broken off below feathers of bird. Encrustations on surface.
Small plump right arm, perhaps of a child, holding a bird.
Tail feathers with some hatching ... 17 August 1977 ... Head of bird broken off; forearm broken off below feathers of bird. ... Small plump right arm, perhaps of a child, holding a bird.
Tail feathers with some hatching below arm; without detailing above wing and neck.
|
|
|
