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An Anatolian Greek Belt Handle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

John Boardman
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The bronze belt handle shown in Plate LXIV was acquired by the British Museum in 1962 and illustrated by Dr. Barnett in BMQ XXVII, Pl. 31g. I am indebted to him for the photographs used here and for permission to study the piece and present this account of it. It belongs to a class of objects which has been discussed by the writer in Anatolia VI (1961) 179 ff. They are fibula-like attachments to metal belts of a distinctive type which was apparently invented in Phrygia, but copied in Ionia where examples dating from the early seventh century to the sixth are known from Chios, Samos, Smyrna and Ephesus. Unfortunately the Phrygian series is not as yet as well known as the Greek.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 16 , December 1966, pp. 193 - 194
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1966

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1 Inv. 132961. Restored width 6·8 cm. Solid cast, with single rivet attachments, broken away, beneath the central moulding and the lion heads.

2 See also The Greeks Overseas 107 f., Fig. 29 (the figure repeated by Young in VIII. Congr. Arch. Class. where the caption should be corrected to show that the upper example is from Gordion, the lower from Chios).

3 Anatolia VI, Pl. 20d; Arch. Reports 1955 37, Fig. 4 left.

4 Arch. Deltion II (1916), 210Google Scholar, Fig. 34; Pl. 5, Fig. 30.

5 On reticulate manes in Greece and the east see Brown, , The Etruscan Lion 13 fGoogle Scholar. Cf. the Phrygian “woven” mane on the wooden figurine, AJA LXI (1957)Google Scholar, Pl. 91.19 (Akurgal, , Die Kunst Anatoliens 66Google Scholar, Fig. 103).

6 AA 1964, 377Google Scholar, Fig. 22; Ist. Mitt. XIII/XIV (1963/1964)Google Scholar Pl. 31.2–4. One terminal only. Other Ionian belts are dedicated at goddess sanctuaries (Anatolia VI, 189)Google Scholar. At Didyma, the sanctuary of “the twins”, Artemis was worshipped beside Apollo.