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Silver phiale, with inscription. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver phiale, detail of inscription (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver phiale, with inscription
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 169
- Date
- Late 6th or early 5th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.37.96
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.37.96
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.37.96
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Ikiztepe Tumulus
- Description
- “The shallow bowl has a sharply flaring offset lip, and a shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. Radiating from an engraved circle around the omphalos are eighty-seven lightly chased tongues, defined around the top by scalloping. Around the shoulder is a narrow profiled band of three ridges with two intervening shallow grooves. On the inside of the bowl, thirty-eight tongues are chased on the floor around the omphalos. On the underside of the omphalos are incised a complex monogram and the Greek letters, written retrograde, probably representing the beginning of a Lydian name.
Height 0.041 m, diameter at rim 0.151 m, diameter of body 0.122 m, weight 190.8 g.” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996)
- Comments
- From the Ikiztepe Tumulus.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 42.
- Author
- İÖ