• latw-157-1
    Silver omphalos bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Silver omphalos bowl

    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