Özgen, Öztürk, Lydian Treasure (1996)
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Abbreviation
Özgen, Öztürk, Lydian Treasure (1996)
Form of publication
Exhibition Catalogue

İlknur Özgen, Jean Öztürk, contributions by Machteld J. Mellink, Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., Kazım Akbıyıkoğlu, Lawrence M. Kaye, The Lydian Treasure. Heritage Recovered, İlknur Özgen, Jean Öztürk (eds) (Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Monuments and Museums. Uğur Okman (publisher) Istanbul 1996)

Collective work
Yes
ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 975-95000-0-0
Data
Detailed archaeological catalogue of the so-called “Lydian Treasure” composed of dozens of gold and silver objects and pieces of jewelry looted from Lydian tombs in the area around the Lydian capital (from Sardis as far as Manisa and Uşak / ancient Magnesia). In 1993 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City returned the Treasure to Turkey. Part One: Prologue, Introduction, texts about the culture of Lydia and neighboring Phrygia, funerary customs, metal working, painting etc., as well as Lydian sites in the interior of Asia Minor, and the Phrygian capital of Gordion, pp. 9-64; with abundant drawings, plans, reconstructions and color phot. Part Two: Catalogue of 228 works belonging to the Treasure which was returned, as well as other, similar objects either from recognized excavations or from the arrest of antiquities thieves. Color phot. and bibliography for each entry, pp. 65-239. List of catalogue numbers of the finds (in the Metropolitan Museum and in the Turkish museums), pp. 240-241. Bibliography, pp. 242-247. Total pages, 248.
Key words
Achaemenid Persians.
Anatolia, antiquities.
Ancient Greek art.
Ancient Greek sources.
Ancient Greek trade.
Archaic architecture.
Asia Minor / Asian Turkey.
Attic vases.
Bronze Age.
Ceramics, Archaic period.
Commerce.
Cybele, goddess.
Funerary culture.
Gordion.
Great Mother, goddess.
Greek antiquity.
Illegal antiquities trade.
Iron Age.
Ivory.
Lydia, region.
Lydian civilization.
Lydian kings.
Metalwork, Archaic period.
Metropolitan Museum of Art / Met.
Midas, king.
Miletos / Miletus.
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.
New York City.
Oriental cults.
Phrygia.
Phrygian antiquities.
Phrygian civilization.
Phrygian tombs.
Royal capital, antiquity.
Seal stamps, antiquity.
Stamps / Seals.
Tombs, ancient Anatolia.
Turkey, antiquities.