LATW Cat. 46

Metalwork

Iron

Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

Iron. Blade and tang. Stoney accretions on blade. On tang, orange powdery substance with wood-like grain.

LATW Cat. 47

Miscellaneous

Bone

Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

“skeleton…almost complete. Missing (in 1974 examination by Fitzgerald and Trum) lumbar, sacral and some caudal vertebrae (three of the last present); some carpals, metacarpals, tarsals, metatarsals; portions of skull (no sagittal crest); baculum. Dec...

LATW Cat. 48

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Ca. 580-540 BC (Lydian)

Bronze, with dull green patina. Solid-cast, with incised lines and indented dots added after casting. The front side shows recumbent boar to right, with jaw resting on lower foreleg, body resting on lower hind leg; tail across haunch, with long termi...

LATW Cat. 49

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Ca. 580-540 BC (Lydian)

Bronze (for the composition, Waldbaum 1983b, 67), with many surface pocks of irregular form. Solid cast. The front side shows recumbent wild goat to left, with head reversed, beard curving forward over back and upper haunch, and legs folded underneat...

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. 50

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy, Lead

Late 7th to early 6th c BC. (Lydian)

Bronze, with a filling of lead. The ornament features a raptor “head with solid curved beak and hollow neck forming base. The round eyes are in relief; pupil and beak defined by incision. The neck is pierced laterally by four circular openings; a fif...

LATW Cat. 51

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Second quarter to middle of the 6th century BC (Lydian)

Round bronze object consisting of slightly tapering cylinder pierced at four quadrants and at bottom, crowned by cloverleaf-like disk, with its notches directly over the holes. Complete; corroded; lump of iron corroded to interior. Height 0.011, diam...

LATW Cat. 52

Bone and Ivory, Sculpture

Ivory

6th c BC (Lydian)

“Above the forehead and back of the head are flat surfaces…On each cheek is a horizontal crescent-shaped depression, and below the lower lip is still another depression.…The ears are large and fully modeled. Attached to each is a large circular ear-r...

LATW Cat. 53

Bone and Ivory

Ivory

Ca. 640-625 BC (Lydian)

Ivory, broken at bottom and left top. The front surface shows parts of a deer, to left: head, upper neck, posterior antler, and the upper part of its rump. The eye is defined by an incised circle and dot, and has an incised duct; the end of the nose ...

LATW Cat. 54

Bone and Ivory

Bone

Ca. 650 BC (Lydian)

Bone plaque of irregular round shape. The front side has an arcuated profile and shows a curled animal with round eye and ear that extend beyond the round outline. The eye has an inner incised circle and central dot; the ear has a triangular cut at i...

LATW Cat. 55

Bone and Ivory

Bone

Ca. 625-580 BC? (Lydian)

Bone plaque, round. The front side has an arcuated profile and shows two birds’ heads with large bills, the lower bill of one adjoining the upper bill of the other, occupying ca. two-thirds of the surface. Heads emerge from the straight border of an ...

LATW Cat. 56

Architectural Terracotta

Terracotta

Middle of 6th c BC (Lydian)

Terracotta fragment of a sima or geison, molded and painted with cream, dark sepia, and red-brown slips, showing head and shoulders of a bearded man, facing right. Background, flesh parts, and perhaps entire form are covered with cream slip, and over...

LATW Cat. 57

Architectural Terracotta

Terracotta

(Lydian)

Terracotta fragment of a horizontal sima, preserving part of the spout (at lower right); molded and painted with cream, dark sepia, and red-brown slips, showing parts of a winged horse, rearing to right, and a narrow bar with hook end over the spout....

LATW Cat. 58

Architectural Terracotta

Terracotta

Ca. 560-550 BC (Lydian)

Terracotta fragment of a raking sima or geison; molded and painted with cream, dark sepia, and red-brown slips, showing parts of two primary motif zones, the more complete of which has a scroll or lyre motif, and a top or bottom border, which has a h...

LATW Cat. 59

Architectural Terracotta

Terracotta

Probably first half of 6th c BC (Lydian)

Lower right corner of a lateral spouted terracotta sima. Front side with molded and painted figural decoration on white background. Molded hindquarters of rearing horse facing left with part of tail preserved. The horse, most likely a winged Pegasus,...

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. 60

Architectural Terracotta

Terracotta

AD 1976-1981 (Modern)

Nine tiles made of clay, painted with clay slips, and fired in an electric kiln; Sardis, 1976-1981. Tiles are made of clay that had been prepared by potters at Urganlı, near Turgutlu/Kasaba. Three slips fired white, red, and black: white slip is made...

LATW Cat. 61

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Ceramic cooking pot (chytra) of clay, with many fine sand inclusions to prevent the vessel from cracking when placed on the fire (cookingware). Flat bottom, globular body, thickened rim. High-swung strap handle. Intact. Height 0.133 m, diameter of ri...

LATW Cat. 62

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Coarse cookingware stand to support a cooking pot on a hearth. Wheel-made tapering cylindrical body with ca. one-fourth of the diameter cut away to give access to coals within. Thickened lip, with beveled top where cooking pot rests. Three triangular...

LATW Cat. 63

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Small globular cooking pot of coarse cookingware. Flat bottom, globular body, outturned rim. High-swung strap handle. Thin wash on exterior surface. Interior slightly eroded from use, exterior reddened on one side. Mended from fragments, almost compl...

LATW Cat. 64

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Flat profile, with flaring knob handle. Part of circumference cut away to provide space for cooking pot handle. Intact. Height 0.054, diameter 0.200.

LATW Cat. 65

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Large strainer with three handles. Wide flaring lip, bowl-like perforated central strainer, which is pierced from the outside with holes. Score marks on exterior guided placement of holes. Three horizontal handles, circular in section, with flat lug-...

LATW Cat. 66

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Plain coarse bowl with incurved rim. Irregular string-cut base, gently curving body, slightly ridged, slightly inturned rim. Almost complete, mended. Height 0.085-0.089, diameter of rim 0.132-0.147 m.

LATW Cat. 67

Stone Vessel

Basalt, Marble, Stone

Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Basalt mortar and white rubbing stone or pestle. Mortar is a shallow bowl with low vertical rim and three legs. The interior is worn smooth from use; the exterior is smoothly worked but not polished. Legs rectangular in section with vertical grooves ...

LATW Cat. 68

Metalwork

Iron

Before mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Iron. Rectangular sheet reinforced along the long sides by two narrow strips, one of which has slipped out of position and lies diagonally across the sheet. (The method of attachment has not been identified.) The main sheet was perforated with many s...