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Boat-shaped earring from Ephesus. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Boat-shaped earring from Ephesus
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 144
- Date
- Lydian
- Museum
- Selcuk, Ephesus Museum, 54/32/85
- Museum Inventory No.
- 54/32/85
- Material
- Gold
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Ephesus
- Description
- Gold boat-shaped earring, with swelling crescent body, wire on one end to pass through pierced ear. Width 1.25 cm, height 1.4 cm, weight 2.6 g.
- Comments
- From the Artemision at Ephesus, in the region of the Cult Base D (cf. No. 19)
- See Also
- Meriçboyu, “Jewelry”; Kerschner, “Lydians and Ionians”.
- Bibliography
- Pülz 2009, no. 216, with previous bibliography.
- Author
- NDC