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HoB 734: Intaglio die. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Intaglio die
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6655
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6655
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M61.092
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork, Mold
- Metalwork Type
- Miscellaneous
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - South of Building C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W19 / S95 *99.6
- Findspot
- W19 / S95 *99.6 ⁓ south of Building C
- Description
- Copper alloy intaglio die for raising gold foil. Square-shaped; edges roughly shaped. Upper surface cuttings: a square with bead-and-reel pattern; inside the frame at the side, a centrally dotted nearly three-quarter circle, encircled with bead-and-reel pattern, adjacent to each of the four sides of the square; circle with central dot at the center; single crisscross between each three-quarter circle on the corners. A single hole is preserved on the outer edge, for suspension?
- Dimensions
- L. 0.05, W. 0.05, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1962," pp. 11–12, fig. 8; Sardis M8, cat. no. 948.
- Author
- GGD