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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