LATW Cat. 1

Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Pendant in form of a ram. Elongated cylindrical body perforated just above stumps of forelegs. Cylindrical neck at oblique angle to body. Small head with rounded nose; horns in relief curve back and around on either side of head. Tiny tail points dow...

LATW Cat. 2-3

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Two bullet-shaped “earplugs,” made of sheets of argentiferous gold wrapped around a core of dark material. Conical terminal with hatched decoration; concave shaft with flat end. Tips pierced. Length 0.023 m; diameter of conical end 0.009 m.

LATW Cat. 4

Metalwork

Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Copper or copper alloy. Lozenge-shaped blade with rounded, perforated butt end and sharply tapered point. Widest part of blade nearest butt. Flattened lozenge-shaped section.

LATW Cat. 5

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Round bottom, slightly globular body. Offset neck high and straight (almost vertical) in front, short and curved in back, with mouth at steep angle. Oval section handle attached via tenon. Tiny (0.0035 m) hole below right rear lug. Three pellets arou...

LATW Cat. 6

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Flat bottom, ovoid body (flattened to one side), continuous concave neck, flaring rim with rounded lip. Two holes in rim, one on each side, above two lugs at maximum diameter. One lug pierced, one lug grooved. Two knobs at maximum diameter between lu...

LATW Cat. 7

Sculpture

Stone

Ca. 2700-2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

White stone idol of flat, abstract form with rounded, shovel-shaped body, stump arms, projecting neck, and disc-shaped head. Arms are delineated from body by notches on the sides and shallow grooves at the clavicles, the only apparent alterations to ...

LATW Cat. 8

Metalwork

Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy

(Early Bronze Age)

Copper or copper alloy. Broad, flat blade, roughly trapezoidal in shape. Blade end wider and slightly rounded; butt end rectangular and narrower for hafting.

LATW Cat. 9

Metalwork

Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy

Ca. 2500–2000 BC (Early Bronze Age)

Copper or copper alloy. Long, lozenge-shaped blade with rounded butt end with no rivet hole and tapered point. Widest part of blade nearest haft.

LATW Cat. 10

Sculpture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

520-500 BC (Hanfmann); 4th c BC (Bossert) (Late Lydian (Persian))

Stele of white marble. Above, relief showing a man seated on a stool at a table, behind him an indistinct form that has been variously identified (standing child, Bossert; foreparts of a dog, Hanfmann). The man either has a disproportionately long ri...

LATW Cat. 11

Sculpture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Shortly after the middle of the 4th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

At the top of the stele, “a local version of an anthemion finial of lyre-volute type. In place of the usual palmette is a schematic rendering of a bird in flight, with splayed wing feathers substituting for palmette leaves” (Roosevelt 2009, 261). Bel...

LATW Cat. 12

Sculpture

Limestone, Stone

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

“Brownish yellow chalky limestone. Figure stands on a 0.18 m high plinth to left in a long-sleeved, knee-length tunic and sandals, holding a flower bud forward in right hand and a bird at side in left hand. Hair in tight curls. Lips and eyes around i...

LATW Cat. 13

Sculpture

Sandstone, Stone

Ca. 570-560 BC (Lydian)

One of two and one-half sandstone lion sculptures that were set up on the corners of the Altar of Cybele in the gold refining area at Sardis (Sector PN; see Greenewalt, “Gold and Silver Refining”). Lion on low plinth, open roaring mouth showing tongu...

LATW Cat. 14

Sculpture

Sandstone, Stone

Ca. 570-560 BC (Lydian)

Sandstone lion sculpture from SW corner of the altar at PN. “Very crumbly, broken in two parts, about two thirds of forepart of head broken off... but right eye preserved. Mouth preserved only at sides...” (Hanfmann and Ramage). Height 0.405 m, lengt...

LATW Cat. 15

Miscellaneous

Terracotta

First half of 6th c BC (Lydian)

Terracotta nozzle of coarse clay. “Four joining pieces forming complete squarish outer and round inner section of a flat-faced tapering nozzle. Intense heating has melted away some of the tip, which is grossly misshapen with bits of vitrification adh...

LATW Cat. 16

Miscellaneous

Stone

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Bar of very fine black stone, rectangular in section, broken at one end, other end finished. Polished smooth surface, slightly convex. Preserved length 0.052 m, width 0.012 m; thickness 0.010 m.

LATW Cat. 17

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-560 BC (Lydian)

Electrum third-stater. Obverse: roaring lion head, facing right, with “hairy nose wart.” Reverse: two incuse punches. Good condition. Weight 4.75 g, diameter 12 mm.

LATW Cat. 18

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-560 BC (Lydian)

Electrum third-stater. Obverse: roaring lion head, facing right, with “hairy nose wart.” Reverse: two incuse punches. Good condition. Weight 4.75 g, diameter 11 x 13 mm.

LATW Cat. 19

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-575 BC (Lydian)

Electrum coin of one-twelfth stater weight (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 86/L567). Obverse: roaring lion head facing right, with a round “wart” on top of the muzzle; the wisps of the mane pointing downwards. Reverse: incuse punch. Diameter 0.007...

LATW Cat. 20

Coin, Inscription

Electrum

Ca. 630-575 BC (Lydian)

Electrum coin of twelfth-stater weight. Obverse: Roaring lion head facing right. Along right side of coin, three Lydian letters, “...WET.” Reverse: single punch. Diameter 0.007; weight 1.19 g.

LATW Cat. 21

Coin, Inscription

Electrum

Ca. 630-600 BC (Lydian)

Electrum coin of third-stater weight (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 94/K257). Obverse: two confronted lion’s heads, only the left-hand head struck on the coin, the right represented only by a bit of the nose along the right edge. Between the two ...

LATW Cat. 22

Coin, Inscription

Electrum

Ca. 630-575 BC (Lydian)

Electrum coin of one-third stater weight (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 86/K345). Obverse: boar head facing left. At the left of the head are the Lydian letters of a partially preserved name, ...]L?ATE[..., and the tip of the snout and tusk of a...

LATW Cat. 23

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-615 BC (the terminus ante quem of Ca. 615 BC is certain from the stratigraphic context) (Lydian)

Electrum coin of one twenty-fourth stater weight (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 94/K277). Obverse: four-clawed lion’s paw. Reverse: single punch. Weight: 0.56 g.

LATW Cat. 24_1-24_26

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 610-560 BC (Lydian)

Twenty-six electrum coins, of one-third stater weight (Gordion inventory numbers 1078-1103). Obverse: roaring lion head facing right. Reverse: two incuse punches. Countermarks on edges of 1078 and 1079. Weight: 4.75 g; except for 1078, 1083-1085, and...

LATW Cat. 24_27

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 610-560 BC (Lydian)

One electrum coin of sixth-stater weight (Gordion inventory number 1104). Obverse: roaring lion head facing right. Reverse: single punch. Weight 2.35 g.

LATW Cat. 24_28-24_45

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 610-560 BC (Lydian)

Eighteen electrum coins of twelfth-stater weight (Gordion inventory Nos. 1105-1122). Obverse: roaring lion head facing right. Reverse: single punch. Countermarks on Nos. 1105, 1120-1122. Weight 1.20 g.