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Objects, probably from destroyed tumulus at Gökçeler (Photograph by Christopher Roosevelt)
Silver bracelet
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 193
- Date
- Probably early fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4613
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4613
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments
- Metalwork Type
- Jewelry
- Site
- Gökçeler?
- Description
- Silver bracelet with open ends terminating in calves’ heads facing one another. Diameter 0.061 m, thickness of ring 0.004 m.
- Comments
- Similar to No. 192 and forming a pair with it.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Özkan 1991, 132, no. 5; Dedeoğlu 2003, 67, fig.; Roosevelt 2003, 556, 673; Roosevelt 2009, 241-2; forthcoming study by C.H. Roosevelt.
- Author
- NDC