M14 Cat. 787

Inscription

Marble, Stone

Late Antiquity. (Roman)

Fragment of fine gray marble; only a part of the upper edge is preserved, broken on all other sides. Squared lunate sigma.

M14 Cat. 788

Inscription

Marble, Stone

Late Antiquity. (Roman)

Two joining fragments of a plaque of white marble; broken on all sides. The front is roughly worked.

R2 Cat. 1

Sculpture

Schist, Stone

Ca. 2500-2000 BC (?) (Early Bronze Age)

Preserved are the lower body and legs tapering to small pointed feet. The interior of the legs is unfinished. This is an example of a flat idol of obese type.

According to D.G. Mitten it is “like a silhouette cut-out of a mother goddess figurine.”

R2 Cat. 2

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Third Millenium BC? (Early Bronze Age)

The round eye is made with a little chisel, the mouth by sawing and thin file or with abrasive. There were three strokes on the left of the neck to characterize feathers. This is not a Greek or Roman piece but either early Lydian or more likely Bronz...

R2 Cat. 3

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 600 BC (Lydian)

The hair is stylized in large “Daedalic” beads, with waves over the forehead; they are separated by incised lines on her right side with eight vertical beads in two tresses. Plain in back, the hair falls over the back of the throne. It curves around ...

R2 Cat. 4

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

580-570 BC (Lydian)

The lower part of the small female archaic statue is made in one piece with the base and has a back pillar. Her chiton falls in vertical folds down to the ground but leaves a niche for two schematized feet set apart. The oblique bit of garment seen a...

R2 Cat. 5

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

580-570 BC (Lydian)

Five near-vertical, straight chiseled folds flank either side of two wide ribbons which fall vertically from the belt. Preserved at the top right and left are bits of double-folded overhang from a himation. In addition to the overhang, there are thre...

R2 Cat. 6

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

The figure of a woman is linked by background with a columnar structure. Standing stiffly, she holds in her huge right hand a wiggling snake, the tail of which drags on the ground. She wears a chiton with six vertical central folds and a short Ionic ...

R2 Cat. 7

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Monument in the form of a shrine decorated with reliefs, with goddess standing in front, henceforth referred to as “Cybele shrine.”

A frontal female figure wearing a girt chiton stands between two snakes (or plants?) in the entrance of a shrine. The s...

R2 Cat. 8

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

530-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The statue stood with the I. leg slightly forward of the r., both arms down the sides. The figure wears a chiton with delicate wavy folds, half-length sleeves with long seams, and a wide semi-circular border with two edges around the neck. The cloak,...

R2 Cat. 9

Sculpture

Limestone, Stone

520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The figure is carved into the flat broad surface of a rectangular limestone block which is plain on the sides and back. The background was treated with claw chisel, then smoothed. She stands with her small short feet parallel and slightly apart, arms...

R2 Cat. 10

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 500 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

The plain upper garment has a large overfold from the left shoulder. Almost entirely preserved is the powerful upper left arm; only the frontal part of the right arm remains. Small drill plus fine chisel work are used to separate arms from body. A cu...

R2 Cat. 11

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

A heavy cloak with large round folds is draped over the right shoulder, and round clasps button the chiton at the shoulder. There are thin, cleanly chiseled but not as yet transparent folds at the shoulder and V of neck. The piece seems parallel to f...

R2 Cat. 12

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th-4th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

The r. arm was raised, l. extended sideways in fighting posture. The head was turned to proper l. The himation with overfold goes diagonally across the back and ties over the upper l. shoulder. Three short locks fall on the back of the r. shoulder wi...

R2 Cat. 13

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

Possibly the right side of a colossal statue or relief. The fragment has a fold falling across the shoulder, another going across the back, and long shallow vertical folds falling down the back. It is at least one and a half times life size.

Because o...

R2 Cat. 14

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 540-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The fragment has a pattern of near-hexagonal rounded “beads” arranged in three continuous lines from l. to r. plus an intrusive line of three beads. It is possible from the hair of an archaic kouros (?), the back portion either just below the top (Ri...

R2 Cat. 15

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

480-460 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

A regular pattern of tight curls goes down to the nape of the neck which has fine light chisel work and finish. The back of the head is rounded in profile. It is probably a late archaic or early classical original. B.S. Ridgway has suggested (orally)...

R2 Cat. 16

Sculpture

Lava, Stone

Before 570 BC? (Lydian)

Curving, finely cut folds border a shallowly molded muscle of a leg (?). The piece was originally recorded in a horizontal position as possibly a leg and part of a wing of a sphinx. It may, however, be viewed as vertical, either a walking lion or bul...

R2 Cat. 17

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The stele was set at the bottom into a base. The back, which was probably not seen, is extremely roughly trimmed. The sides are finished with multiple claw chisel. The lower part of the front preserves the scattered stroke patterns of claw chisel and...

R2 Cat. 18

Sculpture, Architecture

Marble, Stone

450-430 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The block is probably one of the two pieces which constituted the l. side of a small pediment. The slope was ca. 1:4 (58:232) and the size of the missing corner block can be calculated to ca. 1.00. Half of the pediment was ca. 2.30, and the entire pe...

R2 Cat. 19

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The r. side of the stone had a moulding just above the height at which the front panel ends; otherwise the surface is smoothed. There is an L-shaped cut at the bottom from reuse. The l. side of the stone is smooth, the surface destroyed from moulding...

R2 Cat. 20

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 400 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

On both sides remain parts of the top of the triangular pediment (W. 0.49). Part of the interior of the pediment is preserved on the l. (H. 0.24; D. 0.65). Its corner ends just above the inner edge of the l. pilaster capital. It must have had acroter...

R2 Cat. 21

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

4th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The marble piece is flat on top but cut in front to indicate a very shallowly pitched roof with a round central and two palmette-shaped corner acroteria. Details may have been indicated by painting. The sides, acting as pilasters, have no carved deta...

R2 Cat. 22

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

This architectural relief is beautifully chiseled and perfectly smoothed. The forms are simple but highly refined and rounded. The back of the relief is smoothed but has a few scattered dots. It was clearly to be set against a smooth surface, hence i...

R2 Cat. 23

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 580-560 BC (Lydian)

The lion is conceived as one, not two beasts; he has only one tail. Frontally viewed, the two legs are separated by “background,” ca. 0.06 W., thicker (0.075) below the belly. The lion has a broad mane of plastically rendered, overlapping curls which...