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Silver pendant in form of hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Silver pendant in form of hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Silver pendant in form of hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Silver pendant in form of hawk
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 154
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5266
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5266
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- J61.003
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.2
- Locus
- Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
- Description
- Surface corroded. Hawk standing on a rectangular plinth; on back, suspension ring. Height 0.03 m.
- Comments
- From a schist-lined cist burial in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region; grave 61.2). For pendants in the form of hawks and other creatures, made of metal and faience, see Greenewalt 1972, 135-136 and n. 36; and No. 138.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 126, 135-136 (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG