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Skull and right forearm from the skeleton of a young manLATW Cat. 210
Miscellaneous
Bone
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Skull and right arm from the skeleton of a young man, probably a soldier who died in the Persian sack of Sardis. The skeleton was complete except for part of the pelvis; only selected parts are displayed here. It belonged to a young man, estimated to...
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Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription from İkiztepe Tumulus, No. 172Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); obverse.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); reverse.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); obverse.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); reverse.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); obverse.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale); reverse.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Silver lydion, missing foot; from a tumulus tomb called Ikiz Tepe near ancient Bagis and modern GüreÖzgen and Öztürk 1996, 108 no. 63
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Group of three croeseid coins (one gold, two silver) from sector MMS (placed on finger for scale), obverse
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Lydion No. 33, from Old Smyrna, which contained the silver coin hoardCourtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
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Gold and silver croeseids from under pavement of recess and by skull of skeleton (nos. 2.1, 4.1, 5.1). Obverses, on finger.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Gold and silver croeseids from under pavement of recess and by skull of skeleton (nos. 2.1, 4.1, 5.1). Reverses, on finger.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Gold and silver croeseids from under pavement of recess and by skull of skeleton (nos. 2.1, 4.1, 5.1). Obverses, on finger.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Gold and silver croeseids from under pavement of recess and by skull of skeleton (nos. 2.1, 4.1, 5.1). Reverses, on finger.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Pair of gold rattles from ToptepeLATW Cat. 174
Metalwork
Gold
Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))
The two spool-shaped rattles are virtually identical. Each is formed from two disk-shaped end pieces, a side sheet with concave profile and a central cylindrical tube which is turned over at the ends to secure the disks. One has seventeen concentric ...
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Litharge “cake,” the byproduct of cupellation, showing the hollow in its top surface where a “button” of silver has collected and been removed©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
