• latw-152-1
    Onyx pendant on gold wire. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Onyx pendant on gold wire

    Date
    Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5267
    Museum Inventory No.
    5267
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    J61.002
    Material
    Gold, Stone
    Object Type
    Jewelry and Ornaments
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    Nec
    Trench
    Tomb 61.2
    Locus
    Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
    Description
    Barrel-shaped bead longitudinally perforated with central hole. Wire passes through perforation and around the outside, closely following the bead contour; and makes a small loop rising from the bead midway between the two ends. Length 0.028 m.
    Comments
    From a schist-lined cist burial in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region; Grave 61.2). For comparanda, see Greenewalt 1972, 125 n. 35. Compare the similar pendant from the Ikiztepe Tumulus, No. 178.
    See Also
    Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1972 (with previous bibliography); Dedeoğlu 2003, 35, fig.
    Author
    CHG