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Early Bronze Age silver ram pendant No. 1. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Early Bronze Age silver ram pendant (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Silver Ram Pendant
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 1
- Date
- Ca. 2500-2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 167
- Museum Inventory No.
- 167
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M69.006
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Ahlatlı Tepecik
- Sector
- BT
- Trench
- EB 69.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- Bin Tepe Grid: E 4.43-E 4.43/N 3.2-N 3.2; * -
- Description
- Pendant in form of a ram. Elongated cylindrical body perforated just above stumps of forelegs. Cylindrical neck at oblique angle to body. Small head with rounded nose; horns in relief curve back and around on either side of head. Tiny tail points downward. Length 0.0273 m, width 0.0058 m.
- Comments
- From an Early Bronze Age grave at Ahlatlı Tepecik on the shore of the Gygaean Lake (Grave 69.3), with Nos. 2-3, 4, 5, and 6.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Introduction”; Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann et al. 1970, 15-16, fig. 4; Waldbaum 1983a, no. 881.
- Author
- NDC