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Objects, probably from destroyed tumulus at Gökçeler (Photograph by Christopher Roosevelt)
Silver kyathos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 191
- 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