LATW Cat. 129
Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
Gold, Stone
(Late Lydian (Persian))
“Chalcedony pyramidal stamp seal with gold mounting. The mounting is a gold strip terminating on either side with a carefully executed duck’s head with a long broad bill; the ducks’ eyes are shown, and the feathers on the backs of their heads are ind...
LATW Cat. 130
Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
Silver, Stone
(Late Lydian (Persian))
Chalcedony pyramidal stamp seal, with silver mounting consisting of a flat band with simplified ducks’ bills holding the pin. A rounded silver band forms the suspension. The flat sealing surface is carved in intaglio, with a scene of heroic control: ...
LATW Cat. 131
Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
Silver, Stone
(Late Lydian (Persian))
“Blue chalcedony pyramidal stamp seal, with a portion of a silver mounting consisting of a flat silver strip and the pin running through the stone. The flat sealing surface is carved in intaglio, with a winged, horned lion-griffin walking right on a ...
LATW Cat. 132
Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
Silver, Stone
(Late Lydian (Persian))
“Chalcedony pyramidal stamp seal, with corroded silver mounting consisting of a flat band with simplified ducks’ bills holding the pin. The sealing surface is carved in intaglio, with an open-mouthed lion-griffin walking right” (Dusinberre). Total he...
LATW Cat. 133
Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold
(Late Lydian (Persian))
Collection of gold ornaments and jewelry, belonging to one or more fabric items. According to Roosevelt (Roosevelt 2003, 632): “eight fragments probably belonging to various items of jewelry (two small pins or pegs with spherical heads (MM6283), two ...
LATW Cat. 175
Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold, Stone, Glass
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The necklace is composed of twenty floral beads and eighteen plain beads with acorn pendents. Each floral bead is decorated with two six-petal rosettes that radiate from perforations at opposite ends of the bead and make contact at the petal tips. Th...
LATW Cat. 176
Jewelry and Ornaments
Electrum
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The necklace has been reconstructed from thirty beads of two kinds and seventeen pendants of two kinds. Twenty-six of the threaded beads are plain spheres, slightly indented around the perforations. They are made of sheet in two halves; the halves of...
LATW Cat. 177
Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
Gold, Stone
First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))
The device on the base of the stone shows a pair of single-horned Achaemenian winged griffins, seated and confronted with front paws, one raised, touching. The stone is horizontally perforated at the top, suspended on gold wire that is thick in the m...
LATW Cat. 178
Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold, Stone
First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))
The agate, with pink, red, and white bands, is worked into a basically barrel-shaped bead that is flat at the bottom. It is perforated lengthwise and suspended on gold wire that is treated in a similar way to those of Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 92, ...
LATW Cat. 179
Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The brooch has an elongated composition of six bow-coils, arranged symmetrically, with two large bow-coils set back to back at the center and two at each end which form points. The bow-coils are outlined by granular beading, and there are two double ...
LATW Cat. 180
Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The two pins are virtually identical. The head has an abstracted pomegranate form, divided into six convex segments which are alternately plain and horizontally ribbed an separated by beaded wire. At the apex is a floret of six half-open petals on a ...
LATW Cat. 181
Jewelry and Ornaments
Gold
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The two boat-shaped earrings (sometimes called ‘leech-shaped’) are in the form of a crescent with pointed base and curved pointed corners, one corner tapering sharply into a long fine hook for passing through a pierced ear. Down the center at each si...