During the excavations in the 1960s, a copper disc, broken into several fragments, was found in a Phrygian temple in the lower town of Hattuscha. On it a striding lion is shown, which is framed by a three-dimensional protruding edge ring. The diameter of the work is approx. 15 cm, the thickness of the sheet 0.11 cm. The disk was restored then and attached to a transparent plastic disk using paraffins.

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However, this important Phrygian work of art was meanwhile in a pitiful condition and was restored by me in 2010 for the new exhibition in the Bogazköy Museum.

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First the base was removed with paraffin and the surfaces of the sheet metal fragments were cleaned of all coatings, dirt and mold with special spirit and ethanol. Furthermore, all old and already strongly yellowed bonds were dissolved with acetone.

Then all smaller fragments were reversibly glued together with Paraloid B 44. The surface was preserved with coatings of 7% Paraloid B44 and then with 20% microcrystalline wax Cosmoloid H80.

Since the three large fragments of the disk could not be glued together securely, a special plastic relief was made on which the disk could be beautifully presented in the museum.

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Lit .: RM Boehmer, Die Kleinfunde von Bogazköy, Bogazköy-Hattuscha VII, 1972, p. 70