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Gold seal ring. View of surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Gold seal ring. View of surface with carved lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Gold seal ring
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 123
- Date
- Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4585
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4585
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IAM 4585
- Material
- Gold
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Butler Tomb 381
- Locus
- Butler Tomb 381
- Description
- Gold seal ring with a heavy hoop, much thicker at the ends, where it joins the broad, flat, oval gold bezel. The bezel is carved in intaglio with an open-mouthed lion walking right on a ground line, its tail extending behind with the end bent up and forward. Weight 8 g, diameter of ring 2 cm, length of bezel 1.6 cm, width of bezel 1.25 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, Tomb 381. In the same tomb were found chain no. 25 and beads no. 26 (Curtis).
- See Also
- Dusinberre, “Seals”; Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Curtis 1925, no. 92.
- Author
- ED