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Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration, side view of exterior. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration, view of interior. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration, side view of interior. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration, profile (upside down). (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration, bottom view exterior. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Omphalos phiale with marbled decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 108
- Date
- Ca. 560-520 BC, Lydian or Late Lydian
- Museum
- Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 3376 P1173
- Museum Inventory No.
- 3376 P1173
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Omphalos Phiale
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Marbled
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Gordion
- Description
- Marbled omphalos phiale. Less than half preserved; restored from fragments; parts of omphalos survive. Deep, hemispherical bowl. Fabric hard, fine, slightly micaceous; fired red-brown to milky brick red. Inside and out, cream-white slip, thinly applied in places; over which marbling in orange-to-brown slip applied in vertical stripes by a multiple-brush; outside in a cross of plain (non-wiggly) stripes and, centered in each of the four fields, wiggly stripes; inside over the entire surface in wiggly stripes. Diameter of rim 0.135 m, preserved height 0.054 m.
- Comments
- Recovered from the City Mound (i.e. citadel mound) of Gordion (1955). Form and decoration are similar to marbled omphalos phialai from Miletus, Nos. 113-114.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1978b, 38-39, pl. 14; Greenewalt 2012.
- Author
- CHG