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Silver kyathos (ladle). (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver kyathos (ladle)
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 165
- Date
- Late 6th or early 5th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.26.96
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.26.96
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.26.96
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Ikiztepe Tumulus
- Description
- The shallow bowl has thick walls and is flat at the bottom. The stem, of round section, is formed in one with the bowl. Soldered to the top is a plain vertical ring, its orientation the same as that of the bowl (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Height 0.198 m, diameter of bowl 0.047 m, diameter of stem 0.0055 m, diameter of loop 0.032 m, weight 80.5 g.
- Comments
- From the Ikiztepe Tumulus.
- See Also
- Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”; Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 28.
- Author
- İÖ