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gold-dust hichs washed own rom he range f Tmo-lus."The mention f golddust n thispassagerom heGreekhistorianHerodotuseminds s that it wastheLydians ho nvented oinedmoney.Some ay hat hefirst oinsweressued searly s thereign f KingGygesin themid-seventhentury.C.; butwhether rnot thisis thecase,bythe timeof Gyges'sreat-grandsonlyat-tes, andAlyattes'sonCroesus,oinagewaswell estab-lished.Thirty old taters f Croesus,achbearinghedeviceof the forepartsf a lionanda bull acing ne another,were ound iddenn this nsignificant-lookingar.Theywereprobablyuriedorsafekeepinghortly eforehePersianonquestf Sardisn 547B.C.Height f thear 4% nches.Giftof theAmerican ocietyfor the Exca?vationf Sardis, 6.59.2-5 thecoins),26.59.6(the ar)
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5 Sardisn antiquitywasoneof thegreat itiesof AsiaMinor.Ascapitalf Lydia akingdomocatedn westernTurkey,nlandrommodernzmir), heachievedameandwealth speciallynder er astking,Croesus,eforesuccumbingothePersianonquestn themid-sixthen-tury .C. Westernravelersirst isitedheruins f Sardisin the fifteenthentury,but realscientific xplorationdid not beginuntil thiscentury,whenPrinceton ni-versity onductedn excavationrom 9IO to I9I4, andagain n I922. The finds rom hisexcavation eredi-videdbetweenhe Archaeologicaluseumn Istanbuland the MetropolitanMuseum.Beginningn I958, anew Americanxcavation,ponsoredy Harvard ndCornelluniversities,as continuedo reveal he vastextentof the ancientapital."Lydia, nlikemostothercountries,carcely ffersany wondersor the historiano describe, xcept he
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6 Lydianwaswrittenn letters hatareakin o Greekletters,but the languagetself squitedifferent,ndtothis dayit hasnot beendeciphered.hismarbletelewith a Lydian nscriptionas oundat Sardisn I9II.Recently, n the basisof the understandingf a fewwords,Professor obertoGusmanif the UniversityfMessinaas uggestedhat he nscription aybea jurid-icaldocumentaving o do withthe confirmationf atransferf goods roman individualamedMlimnasothe sanctuaryf Artemist Sardis.Height feet, 4 inches.Gift of theSmericanSocietyorthe Excavationf Sardis, 6.59.7
7 The our uriouslyhapedars hown elowwereprob-ablyused o contain accaris, perfumeorwhichSardiswasnotedn antiquity.t is possiblehat theshapewasaconvenientrade-markor the perfume. arsike thesehavebeenound n greatnumberst Sardis, ndbecausethey seem o have beena specialty f Lydia,modernscholarsave called hemIydions.These,dating romthe sixthcentury .C., wereall excavatedt Sardis; utIydions avebeen ound t numerousites n theMedi-terraneanorld, oodevidencehat heir ontentswerewidely xported.Heightof the tallestar 4N inches.Gift of theAmericanSociety orthe Excavation f Sardis, 6.Z64.27, 6.sg9.64,s6.75.I6-I7
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8 During hefirstAmericanxcavations,undredsfancientombswereopenedn thecemeteriesf Sardis,and hisgroupsthepartialontentsfoneofthetombs.It canbedated o shortly fter hemiddle f thesixthcentury.C. bythepresencefimportsromAthens ndSparta,heAtticoinochoendLaconianylix,ordrink-ingcup,both n the eftforeground.Therestof thepotterys Lydian, ndcanberecog-ni7PS hrr llchrharertPrictirec tho har;7orete1tr;ar ano1
trictnortheastfSardis,ame he nspirationorthejugwiththeoversizedpoutand forthepitcherwiththebulbous ody.Thesmall,dark ug in the rightback-groundmaybe a descendantf anolderHittiteshape.Whysomanyparallelsithother ultures?robablybecauseardis as ituatednoneofthegreathighwaysof antiquity,whichranfromthe Aegean oast,acrosswestern siaMinor, nd ntoPersia. ravelersndcara-
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tS$;D N 9 This ragmentf asarcophagushows beard-tSsQ x W _ _ in chitonandhimationndholding scrollro-
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- 1r -B-X0 The mperialiademdentifieshis culptureas theheadofa Romanmperor.t is a portrait _ l ,_
siblyConstans.heidentifications based n a - - ^certainimilarityf thishead o representations - - t !1of theyouthful mperoround ncoins;ackof r' E^ gauthentic,nidealizedortraitsf Constansnd i _hisbrothersoesnotallow orpositivedentifi-
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softenedby influencesrom the Near East, ischaracteristicf thenewly isingByzantinetyleandsuitswell thedating f thepiece. t is said ;Xbozxt 40 A .D Marble,hezght oM2nahes. |Rogers und, 7.I07 s A _
