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Onyx pendant on gold wire. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Onyx pendant on gold wire
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 152
- 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