LATW Cat. 167

Metalwork

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The shallow bowl has an offset rim, and an extremely shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. The bowl itself is silver, the gold decoration was made separately and applied. The ten tear-shaped lobes are hollow, slotted into grooves o...

LATW Cat. 168

Metalwork

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The deep shouldered bowl has an offset lip, outturned at the rim, and a shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. Spaced evenly around the upper zone of the wall are eighteen male heads, and the lower zone is decorated with seventy-two...

LATW Cat. 169

Metalwork

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

“The shallow bowl has a sharply flaring offset lip, and a shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. Radiating from an engraved circle around the omphalos are eighty-seven lightly chased tongues, defined around the top by scalloping. Ar...

LATW Cat. 17

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-560 BC (Lydian)

Electrum third-stater. Obverse: roaring lion head, facing right, with “hairy nose wart.” Reverse: two incuse punches. Good condition. Weight 4.75 g, diameter 12 mm.

LATW Cat. 170

Metalwork, Inscription

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The shallow dish is has a horizontal everted rim, and the bottom is flat, with a centering mark on the floor. On the underside of the bowl is inscribed the word “MATTVA”, written retrograde.

The word “MATTVA” may be Lydian or Greek, and, according to...

LATW Cat. 171

Stone Vessel

Chalcedony, Stone

Second half of 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Shallow plate or dish of creamy jasper, with red and brown veins. Wide, flat bottom, carinated body, horizontal rim. Diameter 0.145, height 0.03.

LATW Cat. 172

Metalwork, Inscription

Silver

Second half of 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Small single-handled silver dish with a side spout (now missing). Low foot, carinated body, horizontally everted lip. Loop handle ending in ducks’ heads attached to body under lip. At point 90° to handle, perforated opening in wall, which originally ...

LATW Cat. 173

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

This incense burner has a long carrying handle which projects horizontally from the cup. The form of the cup resembles that of the incense burners on pedestals, but the base is flat. The conical cover is composed of five tiers, the lowest of which sl...

LATW 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 ...

LATW Cat. 175

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold, Stone, Glass

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The necklace is composed of twenty floral beads and eighteen plain beads with acorn pendents. Each floral bead is decorated with two six-petal rosettes that radiate from perforations at opposite ends of the bead and make contact at the petal tips. Th...

LATW Cat. 176

Jewelry and Ornaments

Electrum

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The necklace has been reconstructed from thirty beads of two kinds and seventeen pendants of two kinds. Twenty-six of the threaded beads are plain spheres, slightly indented around the perforations. They are made of sheet in two halves; the halves of...

LATW Cat. 177

Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal

Gold, Stone

First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))

The device on the base of the stone shows a pair of single-horned Achaemenian winged griffins, seated and confronted with front paws, one raised, touching. The stone is horizontally perforated at the top, suspended on gold wire that is thick in the m...

LATW Cat. 178

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold, Stone

First half or middle of 6th c BC (Meriçboyu) (Late Lydian (Persian))

The agate, with pink, red, and white bands, is worked into a basically barrel-shaped bead that is flat at the bottom. It is perforated lengthwise and suspended on gold wire that is treated in a similar way to those of Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 92, ...

LATW Cat. 179

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The brooch has an elongated composition of six bow-coils, arranged symmetrically, with two large bow-coils set back to back at the center and two at each end which form points. The bow-coils are outlined by granular beading, and there are two double ...

LATW Cat. 18

Coin

Electrum

Ca. 630-560 BC (Lydian)

Electrum third-stater. Obverse: roaring lion head, facing right, with “hairy nose wart.” Reverse: two incuse punches. Good condition. Weight 4.75 g, diameter 11 x 13 mm.

LATW Cat. 180

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The two pins are virtually identical. The head has an abstracted pomegranate form, divided into six convex segments which are alternately plain and horizontally ribbed an separated by beaded wire. At the apex is a floret of six half-open petals on a ...

LATW Cat. 181

Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The two boat-shaped earrings (sometimes called ‘leech-shaped’) are in the form of a crescent with pointed base and curved pointed corners, one corner tapering sharply into a long fine hook for passing through a pierced ear. Down the center at each si...

LATW Cat. 182

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Each of the thirty-six square plaques bears an embossed pictorial scene of a raptor swooping down to lower right above a hare running to the right. Around the scene and in the field are rows of tiny raised dots. Below the hare’s body is a horizontal ...

LATW Cat. 183

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ornament has a cruciform shape, and comprises four bow-coils formed from beaded wire, set back to back against a central circle of beaded wire. The coils and central circle enclose convex fillings, and are soldered to a backing sheet cut to the s...

LATW Cat. 184

Jewelry and Ornaments

Electrum

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The animal is shown lying right, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. It has a flat oval base edged with beaded wire. It can be seen clearly that the animal was made in two halves, with the edge of the back half overlapping the front. ...

LATW Cat. 185

Metalwork, Jewelry and Ornaments

Gold

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ram is shown lying left, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. The animal is formed in one piece with an oval base of small dimensions. Both body and base are punched with dotted circles, and the hatching on the bead is bordered at ...

LATW Cat. 186

Jewelry and Ornaments

Silver

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The ram is shown lying left, with head facing, and legs folded beneath the body. The fleece is marked by stippling in regular lines, and the head by hatching. The horns are ridged. The articulation of the stylized hind legs and the hooves is prominen...

LATW Cat. 187

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

Late 6th or early 5th c BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The former is for the figure of a recumbent young ram, lying left, with head facing. Pointed horns project backwards above tiny ears. The shaft is cylindrical.

Although these cast bronze formers (Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 189, 190, and 191) were no...

LATW Cat. 188

Metalwork

Bronze/Copper Alloy

(Lydian)

Pipe nozzle made from a sheet of bronze rolled into a tapering tube. “At the wider end of the long, tapering tube is a finely banded outflaring collar, secured to the tube by a rivet at each side” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Length 0.465 m, diameter of ...

LATW Cat. 189

Metalwork

Silver

Probably early fifth century BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

Silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring offset lip, shallow body, no omphalos. Lower body finely decorated with pointed flutes; shoulder decorated with pendant tongues. Rosette decoration in center. Height 0.053 m, diameter 0.125 m.