• latw-139-1
    Electrum earring with double-axe decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Electrum earring with double-axe decoration

    The Lydians and their World (2010) Cat. 139
    Date
    Second half of the 7th or beginning of the 6th century BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 3039
    Museum Inventory No.
    3039
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    IAM 3039
    Material
    Electrum
    Object Type
    Jewelry and Ornaments
    Site
    Ephesus
    Description
    Electrum boat-shaped earring, decorated with beaded wire along sides, with four groups of three wires, crimped to resemble granulation, dividing the exterior into three panels. In panels, double-axes decorated with granulation. One double-axe missing. Weight 2.46 g (38 grains [Hogarth]).
    Comments
    From the Central Basis in the Artemision at Ephesus (on the deposit see No. 20).
    See Also
    Meriçboyu, “Lydian Jewelry”.
    Bibliography
    Hogarth et al. 1908, 104, pl. VI.58, X.38; Meriçboyu 2001, 49, 2; Rudolph 1998, no. 6. For a comparable piece: Pülz 2009, 84–85, 265 cat. no. 228, pl. 22, colorpl. 12.
    Author
    NDC

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