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Faience hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Faience hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Faience hawk. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Faience hawk
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 138
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6245
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6245
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- G85.009
- Material
- Faience
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 85.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E144.6 / S69.2 *100.3
- Description
- 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 preserved; slightly chipped. Height 0.052 m, width 0.017 m, base 0.013 x 0.031 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137); see No. 137. For the type, see Webb 1978, 95-6.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 69, n. 16, fig. 10.
- Author
- NDC