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Objects, probably from destroyed tumulus at Gökçeler. (Photograph by Christopher Roosevelt)
Achaemenid bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 190
- Date
- Probably early fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4615
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4615
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Gökçeler?
- Description
- Undecorated silver Achaemenid bowl, with flaring rim, shallow body, central omphalos. Height 0.062 m, diameter 0.133 m.
- Comments
- Similar to, but plainer than, No. 189, this example has a central omphalos, or raised “navel” in the center of the bowl, relating it to the earlier omphalos phiale, a shape widespread in the Greek, Anatolian, and Near Eastern worlds as early as the ninth century.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Özkan 1991, 132, no. 2; Dedeoğlu 2003, 75, fig.; Roosevelt 2003, 556, 673; Roosevelt 2009, 241-2; forthcoming study by C.H. Roosevelt.
- Author
- NDC