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Bronze blowpipe nozzle. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Bronze blowpipe nozzle
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 188
- Date
- Lydian
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.206.96
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.206.96
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.206.96
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Tool, Object Associated with Metalworking
- Description
- Pipe nozzle made from a sheet of bronze rolled into a tapering tube. “At the wider end of the long, tapering tube is a finely banded outflaring collar, secured to the tube by a rivet at each side” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Length 0.465 m, diameter of mouth 0.035 m, weight 272.3 g.
- Comments
- From the Lydian Treasure, provenience unknown. Probably used in the manufacture of jewelry; compare the finds from sector PN at Sardis, Greenewalt, “Gold and Silver Refining at Sardis”
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 221.
- Author
- İÖ