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Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.) -
Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.) -
Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Two iron pins with rams’ heads. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Two iron pins with rams’ heads
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 208-209
- Date
- Late 6th or early 5th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7143-7144
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7143-7144
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 7143-7144
- Material
- Iron, Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Horsetrapping, Architectural or Structural Fitting
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BT
- Description
- Two iron pins with decorative bronze rams’ heads. Flange at base of bronze head. Heads are triangular in shape, with horns curving behind ears.
- Comments
- Found with Nos. 206-207 and belonging to the same vehicle. The place and function of these elements on the vehicles is uncertain; Kökten compares the painting from Til Barsip, which shows a similar chariot with rams’ heads decorating the ends of the yokes.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Kökten Ersoy 1998, 117, nos. S/B.3-4; Greenewalt et al. 1993, 37; Dedeoğlu 1991; Dedeoğlu 2003, 77.
- Author
- NDC