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Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription, from side. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. Detail of handle. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. Detail of handle. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. Detail of base and inscription. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. Detail of strainer spout. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription. Detail of handle and bottom. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver side-spouted dish with Phrygian inscription
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 172
- Date
- Second half of 6th or early 5th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Ankara, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, 75.5.66
- Museum Inventory No.
- 75.5.66
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Name
- Inscription language
- Phrygian
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Ikiztepe Tumulus
- Description
- Small single-handled silver dish with a side spout (now missing). Low foot, carinated body, horizontally everted lip. Loop handle ending in ducks’ heads attached to body under lip. At point 90° to handle, perforated opening in wall, which originally led to a separately attached spout, now missing. On the foot, a lightly incised graffito, beginning with the name Milas or Midas. Height 0.03 m, diameter 0.102 m, weight 98.53 g.
- Comments
- The side-spouted bowl is particularly common in Phrygian pottery and metalwork; many examples are found in tombs and occupation layers at Gordion. The shape is known in Lydian pottery as well, however, as well as in other Near Eastern cultures; see the ceramic example with marbled decoration (Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”). Although strainer-spouted vessels are often associated with drinking beer, they could certainly be used for other liquids; and strainers are commonly associated with metal wine sets as well (see Moorey 1980).
- See Also
- Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Introduction”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 60; inscription: Gusmani 1988; Brixhe 1989-1990; Orel 1996.
- Author
- NDC