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Lydia and Lydians The Historical and Cultural Settings Architectural Terracotas Lydian Art major Lydian centers Gordion Sardis The Bayindir Tumuli Toptepe Aktepe wall paintings Harta wall paintings and reliefs Karaburun Kizoldun and Dedetepe Tumuli The Tomb of the Carian Princess

The Catalogue by origin Toptepe Oinochoe Ladle Pair of Rattles Pair of Bracelets With Lion-Head Terminals Necklace With Acorn Pendants Pair of Boat Shaped Earings Fragmentary Bracelet Two Necklaces With Chain Pendants Brooch in The Form of a Hippocamp Thirty-Six Square Appliques Ikiztepe Oinochoe Trefoil-Mouthed Jug Phiale Deep Phiale Bowl Lydion Platter With Swivel Handle Lid With Ring Handle Strainer Goblet Spoon Incense Burner Alabastron Miror Disk Pyxis With Lid Agate Pendant Pyramid Stamp Seal Pendant Seal Ring Ring Signet-Ring Pair of Bracelets Cosmetic Box With Lid and Scoop Harta Couch Supports in the From of Seated Sphinxes Wall Paintings of a Male Figure Aktepe Wall Painting of a Female Figure Wall Painting of a Male Figure The Objects Cannot be Assigned to Any Specific Tumulus or Tomb The hoards grouped by the places they have been excavated. The pieces that are looted and sold to the museums by looters, couldn't be assigned to any specific tumulus or tomb. They are taken back and placed to Usak Museum. Phiale Bowl Spatula Situla Winged Sun-Disk Pectoral on a Chain Pendant Pair of Bacelets With Lion-Protome Terminals Necklace With Spiral-Form Beads Necklace with plain and granulated beads and beech-nut pendants Necklace with almond shaped pendants Oval Pendant on a Cyrlindrical Tube Bionical Pendant With Rosette Terminal Recumbent Ram Recumbent Calf Recumbent Ram Fibula Pair of Pins Double Spool Applique Circular Disk Lid Alabastron Ladles Incense Burners General Information Boat Shaped Earings Appligues Recumbent Animals

The pages grouped in 3 categories above. The first portion is about the Lydia and Lydians, second informates you about some major Lydian centers that most of the hoard is founded during excavations, and finaly the catalogue that includes some of the Lydian Hoard, espacially not included in the other pages or their details Obviously, whatever this site trying to concludes a highly informative knowledge to you, indeed it includes only a small part of the hoard and information. The major parts of the hoard are shown in the Usak Museum in Usak, and of course, the actual excavation areas that mensioned above. The remainings are in Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara, Burdur Museum in Burdur, Istanbul Archeological Museums in Istanbul. By the way, if anyone that interested in more spesific and more detailed information about Lydia and Lydian. Please e-mail me to make me offer to you more spesific resources about the concepts that you interested in. So enjoy while learning now...

This site prepared by Tayfun Kalyoncu on 28.02.1997 and last updated on 01.05.1999.
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