LATW Cat. 172

Metalwork, Inscription

Silver

Second half of 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Small single-handled silver dish with a side spout (now missing). Low foot, carinated body, horizontally everted lip. Loop handle ending in ducks’ heads attached to body under lip. At point 90° to handle, perforated opening in wall, which originally ...

LATW Cat. 173

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

This incense burner has a long carrying handle which projects horizontally from the cup. The form of the cup resembles that of the incense burners on pedestals, but the base is flat. The conical cover is composed of five tiers, the lowest of which sl...

LATW Cat. 174

Metalwork

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The two spool-shaped rattles are virtually identical. Each is formed from two disk-shaped end pieces, a side sheet with concave profile and a central cylindrical tube which is turned over at the ends to secure the disks. One has seventeen concentric ...

LATW Cat. 175

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold, Stone, Glass

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The necklace is composed of twenty floral beads and eighteen plain beads with acorn pendents. Each floral bead is decorated with two six-petal rosettes that radiate from perforations at opposite ends of the bead and make contact at the petal tips. Th...

LATW Cat. 176

Jewelry and Ornaments

Electrum

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The necklace has been reconstructed from thirty beads of two kinds and seventeen pendants of two kinds. Twenty-six of the threaded beads are plain spheres, slightly indented around the perforations. They are made of sheet in two halves; the halves of...

LATW Cat. 177

Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal

Gold, Stone

First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))

The device on the base of the stone shows a pair of single-horned Achaemenian winged griffins, seated and confronted with front paws, one raised, touching. The stone is horizontally perforated at the top, suspended on gold wire that is thick in the m...

LATW Cat. 178

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold, Stone

First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))

The agate, with pink, red, and white bands, is worked into a basically barrel-shaped bead that is flat at the bottom. It is perforated lengthwise and suspended on gold wire that is treated in a similar way to those of Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 92, ...

LATW Cat. 179

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The brooch has an elongated composition of six bow-coils, arranged symmetrically, with two large bow-coils set back to back at the center and two at each end which form points. The bow-coils are outlined by granular beading, and there are two double ...

LATW Cat. 180

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The two pins are virtually identical. The head has an abstracted pomegranate form, divided into six convex segments which are alternately plain and horizontally ribbed an separated by beaded wire. At the apex is a floret of six half-open petals on a ...

LATW Cat. 181

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The two boat-shaped earrings (sometimes called ‘leech-shaped’) are in the form of a crescent with pointed base and curved pointed corners, one corner tapering sharply into a long fine hook for passing through a pierced ear. Down the center at each si...

LATW Cat. 182

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Each of the thirty-six square plaques bears an embossed pictorial scene of a raptor swooping down to lower right above a hare running to the right. Around the scene and in the field are rows of tiny raised dots. Below the hare’s body is a horizontal ...

LATW Cat. 183

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ornament has a cruciform shape, and comprises four bow-coils formed from beaded wire, set back to back against a central circle of beaded wire. The coils and central circle enclose convex fillings, and are soldered to a backing sheet cut to the s...

LATW Cat. 184

Jewelry and Ornaments

Electrum

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The animal is shown lying right, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. It has a flat oval base edged with beaded wire. It can be seen clearly that the animal was made in two halves, with the edge of the back half overlapping the front. ...

LATW Cat. 185

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ram is shown lying left, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. The animal is formed in one piece with an oval base of small dimensions. Both body and base are punched with dotted circles, and the hatching on the bead is bordered at ...

LATW Cat. 186

Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ram is shown lying left, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. The fleece is marked by stippling in regular lines, and the head by hatching. The horns are ridged. The articulation of the stylized hind legs and the hooves is prominen...

LATW Cat. 187

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The former is for the figure of a recumbent young ram, lying left, with head facing. Pointed horns project backwards above tiny ears. The shaft is cylindrical.

Although these cast bronze formers (Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 189, 190, and 191) were no...

LATW Cat. 188

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

(Lydian)

Pipe nozzle made from a sheet of bronze rolled into a tapering tube. “At the wider end of the long, tapering tube is a finely banded outflaring collar, secured to the tube by a rivet at each side” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Length 0.465 m, diameter of ...

LATW Cat. 189

Metalwork

Silver

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

Silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring offset lip, shallow body, no omphalos. Lower body finely decorated with pointed flutes; shoulder decorated with pendant tongues. Rosette decoration in center. Height 0.053 m, diameter 0.125 m.

LATW Cat. 190

Metalwork

Silver

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

Undecorated silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring rim, shallow body, central omphalos. Height 0.062 m, diameter 0.133 m.

LATW Cat. 191

Metalwork

Silver

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

Silver ladle (kyathos), with shallow bowl, long handle terminating in a loop that ends in a calf’s head.

LATW Cat. 192

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

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

Silver bracelet or armlet with open ends terminating in calves’ heads facing one another. Diameter 0.061 m, thickness of ring 0.004 m.

LATW Cat. 193

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

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

Silver bracelet with open ends terminating in calves’ heads facing one another. Diameter 0.061 m, thickness of ring 0.004 m.

LATW Cat. 194

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Early 5th c BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ram is shown lying left with head facing. The body is stamped with dot-in-circles. Divided hoofs and their differentiation from lower legs are articulated by indentations. A row of granulation granules or beaded wire encircles the base. Height 2....

LATW Cat. 195

Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal

Gold, Stone

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

Gold and carnelian (?). The hoop of the ring is round in section and uniform in diameter, and terminates in two lions’ heads with collars. Each collar is formed of a pair of thick gold wires framing a row of large granulation granules. The lions’ hea...

LATW Cat. 196

Glass

Glass

Second half of the fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Oinochoe of core-formed and trail-decorated translucent dark-blue glass. Flat disc foot, partially missing, shows trail decoration in light blue. Ovoid body, short neck, rounded rim pinched into trefoil mouth with applied trail of light-blue glass on...