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RECUMBENT ANIMALS

Parallels in precious metals are few. A golden lamb or recumbent RAM (with head turned to the side) north of allegedly Gökçeler Köyü, in the hills of Sardis has dot-and-circle like fleece
No. 151 (Manisa museum M.5289). Electrum two animals, one with a pearl base, in Manisa Museum (No. M.5279 and M.5241) are not very similar. 155th A small solid electrum recumbent . . . → Read More: RECUMBENT ANIMALS

APPLIQUES

Applications, or bracteate, thin gold plates perforated with holes at the edge of the attachment in dress codes of ancient Middle Eastern art are widespread. Some are squares with embossed decoration, such as nos. 116-119, some are a jour forms, such as no. 186th They were pieces of clothing, headgear and finishing of textiles and leather, as is particularly well . . . → Read More: APPLIQUES

Pair of Boat Shaped Earings

Gold
Length 2 and 2.2 cm.
Height of 1.3 cm.
Weight 4 and 3.6 qr.

Usak Museum

The two boat-shaped earrings (sometimes referred to as “leeches shaped ‘) in the form are a crescent with pointed base and sharp corners, curved, pointed a corner sharply in a long, fine hook for passing through a pierced ear. From the middle of each side . . . → Read More: Pair of Boat Shaped Earings

INCENSE BURNERS

The stepped lid of the incense burners are probably a function of Achaemenid Persian voted sculptural representations in relief at Persepolis (in the scene of Treasl1ry Darius and Xerxes I).The horizontal grooves on the Stand-No. 71 is probably Achaemenid, although this ribbing may also Lydian. The slender articulated general state has parallels in the standing censers of Greece, . . . → Read More: INCENSE BURNERS

LADLES

The pans or kyathoi, Gure from the tumuli are all silver and belong to a kind of scoop that was used in Anatolia and Palestine in the Persian and Hellenistic eras, and that may be Achaemenid.The rendering of animal terminals with front and hindquarters in the round in relief to the handles of the NOS. 30 and . . . → Read More: LADLES

ALABASTRON

SILVER AND GOLD

Height 156 cm. , 3.3 cm diameter at the rim. , 6.2 cm diameter of the body. , Weight 148.95 grams
Usak MUSEUM

The body of the Alabastron is decorated in alternating plain and divided zones of six ornamental bands. The top band contains evenly distributed circles with central point below a narrower band of hatching limited. The second volume contains . . . → Read More: ALABASTRON

LID

SILVER

Diameter 21.3 cm.
Diameter of handle 3.7 cm.
Weight 466.89 gr.

USAK MUSEUM

The convex circular cover has a short horizontal edge, the edge slightly curved upward, and a rotating ring handle. In the middle of the lid is a rosette of 25 petals, surrounded by a pine cone decoration, which covers eleven increasingly larger rings as far as the rim. The . . . → Read More: LID

CIRCULAR DISK

GOLD

Diameter 2.8 cm.
Weight 4.3 gr.

USAK MUSEUM

The apartment has used disc decoration. In the middle is a large hollow head with a wire collar, from which radiate five triangles of tiny granules. Around the edge of the panel are three concentric gold wires, the outer two of which are twisted. Around the inside of this line is a single row . . . → Read More: CIRCULAR DISK

APPLIQUE

GOLD

Height 1.9 cm.
Width 1.8 cm.
Weight 1.3 gr.

USAK MUSEUM

The ornament has a cross shape, and includes four bowcoils beads made of wire, back to set up set against a central circle of the beads wire back. The coils and central circle enclosing convex panels, and are on a carrier film cut the same shape soldered.
Similar cross-shaped ornaments were . . . → Read More: APPLIQUE

DOUBLE SPOOL

GOLD

Length 3 cm.
Height 1.1 cm.
Weight 746 gr.

USAK MUSEUM

The two coils are hollow, cylindrical, connected with concave sides, top and bottom edges. The two upper surfaces are decorated with a six-petal rosette. The petals are marked by fine wire beads, surrounded with a grain at the nodes, and the rim with thicker wire beads. The center of the rosette is . . . → Read More: DOUBLE SPOOL