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Ten gold appliqués. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Thirty-eight gold appliqués. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Thirty-eight gold appliqués
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 182
- Date
- Late 6th or early 5th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.91.96
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.91.96
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.91.96
- Material
- Gold
- Object Type
- Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments
- Metalwork Type
- Jewelry
- Site
- Toptepe Tumulus
- Description
- Each of the thirty-six square plaques bears an embossed pictorial scene of a raptor swooping down to lower right above a hare running to the right. Around the scene and in the field are rows of tiny raised dots. Below the hare’s body is a horizontal half palmette. The plaques have a raised line border and a perforation at each corner. Hares and raptors are paired on bone bridle ornaments from Middle Phrygian occupation contexts at Gordion, and as devices of Greek coins of Alis and Akragas.” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 116). Diameter 0.008 m, weights 0.10 g, 0.11 g, and 0.13, and 0.14 g.
- Comments
- From the Toptepe Tumulus; a collection of about 109 appliqués, all about 8 mm square and pierced in the four corners. Thirty-six of them show a hare running to escape a raptor; the others are variations of a star-like floral motif.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”; Kerschner, “Lydians and Ionians”; Meriçboyu, “Lydian Jewelry”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 116.
- Author
- İÖ