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Two bronze handles from a wooden bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Two bronze handles from a wooden bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 159
- Date
- First half of 6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.8.89
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.8.89
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.8.89
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Basmacı Tumulus
- Description
- This pair of swivel ring handles is similar to those on the bowl with rim bands, no. 226 (No. 158). These rings, however, are larger, and the ribbing is more definite, composed of relatively broad convex ribs alternating with pairs of fine ribs. The handles were found in the tomb with fragments of the decomposed wooden bowl to which they belonged and six silver rivets with hemispherical heads. The vessel had rim bands and spools carved in one with the bowl, and presumably the rivets would have been inserted into the top of the spools as a decorative element (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Diameter 0.11 m, thickness 0.012, 0.013 m, weight 1166.96 g. and 119.5 g.
- Comments
- See Also
- Baughan, “Burial Customs”; Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 226.
- Author
- İÖ