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. 500-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Complete, mended from two pieces, chips off rim (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 497 P144). Clay fired reddish buff. Reddish slip applied over lip, rim, and neck; the same slip is applied in a broad spiral band over the reserve surface of the shoulder. ...

Pottery

Ceramic

Second to third quarter of the sixth century BC (Lydian or Late Lydian)

Hemispherical bowl, which originally had a boss in its center. Painted in a reddish brown to black glaze on a thin slip yellowish to light brown hue. Both sides are completely covered with marbling, consisting of adjacent stripes. Approximately ha...

Pottery

Ceramic

Last quarter of the seventh century BC, deposited around 610 BC (Lydian)

Slightly curved body fragment of a stemmed dish (Ephesus excavation inventory ART 94 K 142.1). Bichrome decoration precisely painted in dark chocolate brown and reddish brown on a thick, creamy white slip of extraordinary smoothness, reminding one...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

First half of the fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Two almost circular gold earrings. “The body is hollow and nearly cylindrical in cross section. The outer portion has a rounded profile, with 38 radiating ribs. The inner section is undecorated and terminates in a sharp edge within. On each of the...

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 ...

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Early fifth century BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

Large bronze mirror. Circular disk with reflecting surfaces on both sides; the surfaces are slightly convex, so the image would be smaller than natural. Border is decorated with geometric designs (on one side, guilloche and triangles; on the other...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 7th or early 6th century BC (Lydian)

Tiny gold recumbent lamb, with head turned to side, resting on low base (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 87/K262). Simplified representation, with short snout, ears flattened to head eyes indicated by raised dots. Hollow, made from two pieces of...

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late seventh or early sixth century BC (Lydian)

Gold foil appliqué (Ephesus Excavations Inventory ART 87/K66). Raised central boss surrounded by lightly segmented ring. Four raised, segmented “bowl spirals;” additional foil left at apices, pierced for attachment. 2.1 x 2.1 cm; thickness of foil...

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, ...

Metalwork

Silver

First half of the sixth century BC (Lydian)

The shallow bowl has a straight rim, thickened at the edge, and a large hemispherical omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. On the inner wall are eight evenly spaced horizontal ribs from the omphalos to just below the rim. The outer wal...

Metalwork

Silver

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

“The shallow bowl has a sharply flaring offset lip, and a shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. Radiating from an engraved circle around the omphalos are eighty-seven lightly chased tongues, defined around the top by scalloping....

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-560 BC (Lydian)

Electrum third-stater. Obverse: roaring lion head, facing right, with “hairy nose wart.” Reverse: two incuse punches. Good condition. Weight 4.75 g, diameter 12 mm.

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

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

Bronze/Copper Alloy

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

The former is for the figure of a recumbent young ram, lying left, with head facing. Pointed horns project backwards above tiny ears. The shaft is cylindrical.

Although these cast bronze formers ...

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

(Lydian)

Pipe nozzle made from a sheet of bronze rolled into a tapering tube. “At the wider end of the long, tapering tube is a finely banded outflaring collar, secured to the tube by a rivet at each side” ...

Metalwork

Silver

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

Undecorated silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring rim, shallow body, central omphalos. Height 0.062 m, diameter 0.133 m.

Metalwork

Silver

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

Silver ladle (kyathos), with shallow bowl, long handle terminating in a loop that ends in a calf’s head.

Glass

Glass

Second half of the fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Aryballos of core-formed and trail-decorated translucent dark-blue glass. Round body; short neck, broken; top missing. One of two applied handles preserved in its entirety. Both should have gone vertically from neck to shoulder of vessel. One pres...

Metalwork

Lead

401-395 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Lead, of almond shape. On the longitudinal center of one side, a text of eight legible raised letters in Greek gives ΤΙCCΑΦΕΡ.Ε... Length 36 mm, weight 40.423 g.

Lamp

Ceramic

Second to early first century BC (Hellenistic)

Hellenistic ceramic mold-made lamp. Wheel-made body, concave discus with large central hole, three smaller holes around, probably to allow air to escape while filling the lamp. Handle broken; two knobs on sides of lamp. Flaring nozzle. Thin matte ...

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Fifth to seventh century (Late Roman)

Rectangular bronze scoop, with socket on back for a handle. On the sides are two dolphins with arching tails attached to the scoop by rods round in section. Rising from the tails of the dolphins is an arch framing a cross, forming the back of the ...

Metalwork, Lamp

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Fifth to seventh century (Late Roman)

Lamp in the form of a lion, striding forward and holding a shell-shaped spout in his open mouth. A hole at the top of the mane, covered by a separately made hinged lid, allowed the lamp to be filled. A ring and loop just in front of the filling ho...