• latw-122-10
    Gold seal ring. View of bottom surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Gold seal ring

    The Lydians and their World (2010) Cat. 122
    Date
    Late Lydian (Persian)
    Museum
    Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4636
    Museum Inventory No.
    4636
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    IAM 4636
    Material
    Gold
    Object Type
    Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    Nec
    Trench
    Butler Tomb 811
    Locus
    Butler Tomb 811
    Description
    “Gold seal ring with diamond-shaped gold bezel, with no separation between bezel and ring. The bezel is carved in intaglio, with an open-mouthed lion walking right, its tail curled up over its back. In front of the lion is a circle with two curved lines below, behind it is a bird with hooked beak” (Dusinberre). Diameter 2.25 cm, length of bezel 1.6 cm, width of bezel 8.5 mm.
    Comments
    From Sardis, Tomb 811. “In the same tomb were found ring no. 97 [found on the finger of the skeleton in the sarcophagus] and seal no. 109 (Curtis) [here No. 129].
    See Also
    Dusinberre, “Seals”.
    Bibliography
    Curtis 1925, no. 90; Dusinberre 2003, 264, fig. 73.
    Author
    ED

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