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Hogarth, David G.; Smith, Cecil Harcourt [Contr.]
Excavations at Ephesus: the archaic Artemisia: Text — London, 1908

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214 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

light. This is readily acted upon by disintegrating influences, which leave a
pock-marked surface. The last-named variety is usually believed to be of
Sicilian origin. The clear tawny variety was probably brought from the
Baltic coast. The latter was by far the less abundant among the Ephesian
objects.

The objects in amber are almost without exception in the nature of
amulets or embellishments of articles of personal wear, e.g., fibulae, which were
often adorned with a large bead or beads of this material strung on the bow.
Hardly any piece of amber found at Ephesus, therefore, is to be regarded as an
independent object.

In the following list the amber of which objects are made is distinguished
as tawny or red.

xlviii. Figurine, red. H. '037. Nude female, wearing large wig, cut square at
' ' the back. The head is rudely modelled ; the forehead recedes almost at right
angles from the brows, the eyes are mere dots, and the mouth is a scratch.
Below the buttocks the figure is foreshortened, the feet being carved without
due allowance of room for legs. Perhaps its model was a squatting or seated
figure which could not be properly reproduced by the carver, owing to the shape
and dimensions of his lump of amber. This figure is probably a representation
of the Goddess. [E. of Basis, in disturbed earth where no D pavement
foundation survives. See p. 45.]

Embellishments of fibulae, or of other metal objects {not pins).

xlvii. 13. Lump of irregular shape, red ; roughly smoothed, and showing a number

of scratches such as might be produced by a textile stuff continually rubbinc

the surface. Pierced longitudinally with a curving bore. L. (at greatest

dimension) -o6o. [Basis.]
xlvii. 11. Ditto, red ; L. -025. [Basis.]

xlvii. 10. Lentoid bead, red ; L. "030, broken at ends : pierced with four longitudinal

bores, in one of which a piece of flat bronze wire still remains. [Basis.]

Ornament of a four-coil fibula (?).
xlvii. 4. Ditto, red ; L. '039. One longitudinal bore. [Basis.]

xlvii. 19. Triangular bead, red, bored longitudinally ; L. -024. [Basis.]

xlvii. 20. Ditto, bored longitudinally ; fragment. [Basis.]

xlvii. 21. Bead, red. D. -005, bored both longitudinally and laterally. From a ring

or bracelet (?). [W. Area.]

Perforated cylinders and large beads of amber, probably fibula or earring

ornaments, occurred at Enkomi (PI. be). In the case of fibulae of Etruscan
 
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