Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 590-550 BC (Middle Corinthian or later) (Lydian)

Round Corinthian aryballos with quatrefoil decoration. Globular body with slightly flattened bottom. Very low neck, wide horizontal everted lip with narrow mouth. Carefully drawn rosette around mouth. Rim crosshatched. Handle decorated with wavy l...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. mid-sixth century BC (Lydian)

Attic black-figured band skyphos. Wide low flaring foot. Deep body, slightly inset, flaring lip with sharp transitional ridge on interior. Two horizontal handles. In band, side A: two neatly drawn confronting panthers, framed by palmettes. In band...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 560-520 BC (Lydian or Late Lydian)

Pottery, broken and badly burnt, repaired (Gordion inv. no. 9P9). Flat rim, outflaring neck, round body, semi-conical foot; slightly lopsided. Clay micaceous, grey-brown at core, reddish near surfaces; friable. The exterior is covered with cream s...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 550-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Intact, chips off rim and foot (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 2387 P752). Surface badly worn. Fabric not too fine, sturdy but friable, micaceous; fired light pink. White slip on lip and shoulder. Brick red-to-brown sepia slip (slightly metallic in pla...

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 ...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Faience

Ca. mid-sixth century BC (Lydian)

Egyptianizing faience hawk pendant. Hawk sits frontally, with feet and tip of tail on flat rectangular base. Modelling on legs, tail, wings, eyes, and talons. Small ring protrudes from the back. Glazed, color eroded and burned; completely preserve...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late seventh century or beginning of the sixth century BC (Lydian)

Small gold foil appliqué. Raised central boss, surrounded by four raised, lightly segmented bow coils (Schalenspiralen), with rings at the apices. Volutes and rings pierced for attachment. Probably formed using a positive mold, as the details are ...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 575-540 BC? (Lydian)

Intact, except for nicks of rim. Form somewhat uneven (small depressions in body surface, undulant rim). Clay pale gray-brown, micaceous. Decoration in dark sepia-brown and, apparently, cream slips. Over rim, inside and outside of neck, lower body...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 575-540 BC (Lydian)

Broken and mended. Outside plastic features include a pair of perforated spool handles, eight vertical lugs (four on either side between handles), narrow band connecting handles and lugs at their mid-point. Height (not including handles) 0.065 m, ...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 575-540 BC (Lydian)

Broken and mended. One handle and rim parts missing. Outside, dark slip over rim, at bottom of bowl, and on foot, and for decoration as follows: in handle zone central dot rosette flanked by stripes; below handle zone, broad band. Inside, dark sli...

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 575-540 BC (Lydian)

Broken and mended. Foot restored. Outside, dark slip on handles and body except for reserve bands as follows: narrow at base of lip, broad in handle zone, narrow on lower body. Inside, dark slip except for narrow reserve band below rim. Height of ...

Metalwork

Silver

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The shallow bowl has thick walls and is flat at the bottom. The stem, of round section, is formed in one with the bowl. Soldered to the top is a plain vertical ring, its orientation the same as that of the bowl ...

Metalwork

Silver

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The strainer has a hemispherical bowl and a broad concave rim. The handle projects at a slight angle. Below a plain zone, the bowl is perforated in a swirling pattern; 21 perforated arcs, curving counterclockwise, radiate from the center on the fl...

Metalwork

Silver

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The deep shouldered bowl has an offset lip, outturned at the rim, and a shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. Spaced evenly around the upper zone of the wall are eighteen male heads, and the lower zone is decorated with seventy-...

Stone Vessel

Chalcedony, Stone

Second half of sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Shallow plate or dish of creamy jasper, with red and brown veins. Wide, flat bottom, carinated body, horizontal rim. Diameter 0.145, height 0.03.

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

This incense burner has a long carrying handle which projects horizontally from the cup. The form of the cup resembles that of the incense burners on pedestals, but the base is flat. The conical cover is composed of five tiers, the lowest of which...

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late sixth or early fifth century 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...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late sixth or early fifth century 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...

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Each of the thirty-six square plaques bears an embossed pictorial scene of a raptor swooping down to lower right above a hare running to the right. Around the scene and in the field are rows of tiny raised dots. Below the hare’s body is a horizont...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Electrum

Late sixth or early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The animal is shown lying right, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. It has a flat oval base edged with beaded wire. It can be seen clearly that the animal was made in two halves, with the edge of the back half overlapping the fron...

Metalwork

Silver

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring offset lip, shallow body, no omphalos. Lower body finely decorated with pointed flutes; shoulder decorated with pendant tongues. Rosette decoration in center. Height 0.053 m, diameter 0.125 m.

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-575 BC (Lydian)

Electrum coin of one-twelfth stater weight (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 86/L567). Obverse: roaring lion head facing right, with a round “wart” on top of the muzzle; the wisps of the mane pointing downwards. Reverse: incuse punch. Diameter 0....

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Silver bracelet or armlet with open ends terminating in calves’ heads facing one another. Diameter 0.061 m, thickness of ring 0.004 m.

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Silver bracelet with open ends terminating in calves’ heads facing one another. Diameter 0.061 m, thickness of ring 0.004 m.

Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal

Gold, Stone

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Gold and carnelian (?). The hoop of the ring is round in section and uniform in diameter, and terminates in two lions’ heads with collars. Each collar is formed of a pair of thick gold wires framing a row of large granulation granules. The lions’ ...