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Gold seal ring. View of bottom surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Gold seal ring
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 122
- Date
- Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4636
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4636
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IAM 4636
- Material
- Gold
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Butler Tomb 811
- Locus
- Butler Tomb 811
- Description
- “Gold seal ring with diamond-shaped gold bezel, with no separation between bezel and ring. The bezel is carved in intaglio, with an open-mouthed lion walking right, its tail curled up over its back. In front of the lion is a circle with two curved lines below, behind it is a bird with hooked beak” (Dusinberre). Diameter 2.25 cm, length of bezel 1.6 cm, width of bezel 8.5 mm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, Tomb 811. “In the same tomb were found ring no. 97 [found on the finger of the skeleton in the sarcophagus] and seal no. 109 (Curtis) [here No. 129].
- See Also
- Dusinberre, “Seals”.
- Bibliography
- Curtis 1925, no. 90; Dusinberre 2003, 264, fig. 73.
- Author
- ED