R2 Cat. 6
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
ca. 560 BC (Lidya)
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
540-530 BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
530-520 BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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
Heykel
Kireçtaşı, Taş
520-500 BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
ca. 500 BC? (Geç Lidya (Pers)?)
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
5th C. BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
5th-4th C. BC? (Geç Lidya (Pers)?)
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
5th C. BC? (Geç Lidya (Pers)?)
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
ca. 540-520 BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
480-460 BC? (Geç Lidya (Pers)?)
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
Heykel
Lav, Taş
Before 570 BC? (Lidya)
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
Heykel
Mermer, Taş
520-500 BC (Geç Lidya (Pers))
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...