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Electrum earring in the shape of a recumbent lamb. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Electrum earring in the shape of a recumbent lamb
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 136
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5279
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5279
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- J67.003
- Material
- Electrum
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca W262.5 / S337 *86.50
- Description
- Recumbent lamb with legs folded under body, head turned to side. Hair stippled on top of head; eyes, mouth, and tail incised. Flat base made separately. Lamb solid-cast; wire made separately and probably fastened to back by soldering. Maximum height 1.0 cm, width 0.7 cm, length 1.0 cm, height of wire 1.3 cm, thickness of wire 0.1 cm.
- Comments
- Found just west of the Altar of Cybele in the gold-refining area of Sardis (sector PN, see Greenewalt, “Gold”), the earring might well represent an offering to the goddess.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann 1968, 13, fig. 13; Waldbaum 1983a, no. 719.
- Author
- CHG