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HoB 603: Stone mold. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Stone mold
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6654
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6654
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S61.016
- Material
- Stone
- Object Type
- Mold
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 / S105 *100
- Findspot
- W5 / S105 *100.0 ⁓ south of Building B and above its floor
- Description
- Stone (gray-green schist) mold for earrings and perhaps for other jewelry. Possibly rectangular-shaped; partially broken and missing. Two-sided: 1. Cuttings for three boat-shaped earrings. Boat-shaped ends, below, face to left and each has a vertical pin-line, ending straight above (partially preserved); pour channels are placed immediately below the central part of boat-shaped ends meeting the lower edge of mold; 2. Small segment of a circular cutting placed to the right edge of mold; another cutting, long, vertical, and arrow-like, is placed below, to the right of this circular cutting.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.014, L. 0.07, W. 0.045.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 950.
- Author
- GGD