• latw-191-1
    Objects, probably from destroyed tumulus at Gökçeler (Photograph by Christopher Roosevelt)

    Silver kyathos

    Date
    Probably early fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4611
    Museum Inventory No.
    4611
    Material
    Silver
    Object Type
    Metalwork
    Metalwork Type
    Metal Vessel
    Site
    Gökçeler?
    Description
    Silver ladle (kyathos), with shallow bowl, long handle terminating in a loop that ends in a calf’s head.
    Comments
    Used to dip wine from mixing vessels such as kraters and lebetes (see Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”), ladles form a common part of Lydian and Persian drinking assemblages, as they did in Greece, Etruria, and elsewhere (Moorey 1980). Similar ladles with calf’s-head terminals were found at Sardis (Butler 1922, 83; Waldbaum 1983, no. 965), from the Lydian Treasure, Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 24-26), the child’s sarcophagus from Kızöldün in the Troad (Sevinç et al. 1999), and in other western Anatolian contexts of the Persian period.
    See Also
    Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
    Bibliography
    Özkan 1991, 132, no. 3; Dedeoğlu 2003, 75, fig.; Roosevelt 2003, 556, 673; Roosevelt 2009, 241-2; forthcoming study by C.H. Roosevelt.
    Author
    NDC