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Silver ring with sealstone. View of bottom surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver ring with sealstone. View of bottom surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver ring with sealstone
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 127
- Date
- Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4639
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4639
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IAM 4639
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Butler Tomb 701
- Locus
- Butler Tomb 701
- Description
- Very heavy silver ring of horseshoe shape with an oval hematite (?) intaglio mounted on a swivel. A silver wire passes through the stone and the thickened ends of the hoop and is wrapped twice on each side. It has a rounded top and flat oval base on which is deeply carved in intaglio a lion crouching right on a ground line, its head small and bent down and its tail curling up and back. Its bristling mane is meticulously shown. In the field above the lion’s back is a key-shaped symbol. Diameter of hoop 2.5 cm, diameter wire of hoop 4 mm, length of stone 1.7 cm, height 7 mm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, Tomb 701.
- See Also
- Dusinberre, “Seals”.
- Bibliography
- Curtis 1925, no. 99.
- Author
- ED