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Ear Studs for Greek Ladies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Friedrich Brein
Friedrich Brein
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University of Vienna
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By the following lines I should like to express my gratitude to Fritz Eichler, the late Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, a gentleman whose like may not be found so easily nowadays, who made possible A. Bammer's work at the Ephesus Artemisium, and who directed my interest to East Greek art and artistry as well, since at the moment times are hard for an archaeologist who works on other than Roman Imperial trifles at Efes City.

When Bammer came across bobbin-like objects made of rock crystal, some people thought that he had found parts of Wood's surveying devices or the like, in spite of the fact that they came without any doubt from stratified layers dated between 650 and 550 B.C. Besides, Hogarth had unearthed some 15 pieces of this type already. These “large studs or buttons”, as Hogarth had called them, are hyperboloids of specific shape turned on a lathe, as can be inferred by a faint deepening in the centre of the larger side of some of these hyperboloids. The larger side is always concave, the smaller one plane or slightly convex.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 32 , December 1982, pp. 89 - 92
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1982

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4 Pl. XXIIIa: 71/K 44 (the smallest one): h. 1·02 cm., dm. 1·67 cm. b and c. 71/K 58 (two items): h. 1·58 cm., dm. 3·4 cm. and h. 1·34 cm., dm. 3·06 cm.

5 The others: 72/K 51 (two items), 73/K 10, 73/K 84, 75/K 322, 81/K 381.

6 One possible source is the Tmolus region, from where rock crystal could have been imported as well as electrum. At Sardis until now only finished objects, no raw pieces of crystal have been excavated.

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8 H. 1·18 cm., dm. 3·97 cm.

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25 Some of the bored natural astragali (with traces of gold or bronze, see note 15) may have been ear ornaments fastened by wires.

26 Hogarth, op. cit. 192, pl. 35·5–20; 22. 77/K 37, 80/A 1 (= here pl. XXIIIh), 80/A 4 (two pieces), 80/A 9, 80/A 17, 81/K 201. 80/A 1: h. 0·64 cm., dm. 2·07 cm., centre bored, on border maeander hooks incised between circle lines (two towards the middle).

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39 Hom. Il. 14, 182, cf. h. Hom. 6, 8.