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Silver omphalos bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver omphalos bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 157
- Date
- First half of 6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.3.89
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.3.89
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.3.89
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Basmacı Tumulus
- Description
- The shallow bowl has a straight rim, thickened at the edge, and a large hemispherical omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. On the inner wall are eight evenly spaced horizontal ribs from the omphalos to just below the rim. The outer wall is plain. Similar bowls in bronze, with large hemispherical omphalos and ribs around the inner wall, of a late-eighth-century BC date, were found at Gordion (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Height 0.039 m, diameter 0.156 m, weight 295.49 g.
- Comments
- See Also
- Baughan, “Burial Customs”; Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 224.
- Author
- İÖ