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HoB 242: Green schist seal with goat design. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Green schist seal with goat design
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Seal66.001
- Material
- Schist, Stone
- Object Type
- Seal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W1 / S107 - S108 *95.4 - 95.2
- Findspot
- E1-W1 / S107-108 *95.4-95.2
- Description
- Small, rounded green schist with an engraved goat. Goat is linear in style with downward turned head and two long vertical horns.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.027, Th. 0.003–0.005, L. of animal 0.019, H. of animal with horns 0.019.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt, Cahill et al., "Sardis 1986," p. 36 and fig. 16.
- Author
- AR