• latw-190-1
    Objects, probably from destroyed tumulus at Gökçeler. (Photograph by Christopher Roosevelt)

    Achaemenid bowl

    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