bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 124082
Description: Silver bowl: hammered; embossed ornament consisting of radiating stems terminating in lotus-flowers; between each pair of flowers is a lobe reproducing on a larger scale the central portion of the flower.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 5thC BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Altintepe (?)
Materials
Technique: hammered; embossed
Dimensions: Diameter: 25.80 centimetres; Height: 4.55 centimetres; Weight: 541.30 grammes; Volume: 1190 millilitres (filled)
Curator's comments: Possibly stacked inside 123259 during burial as the interior of that tray was found to be discoloured with a radiating design corresponding with the appearance of this bowl (O M Dalton 1964, Catalogue of the Oxus Treasure, p. 44).
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1964a / The treasure of the Oxus with other examples of early oriental metal-work (p. 44, pl. XXIII, cat. 180); Hughes M J 1984a / Analyses of silver objects in the British Museum (metal analysis); Summers G 1993a / Archaeological evidence for the Achaemenid period in eastern Turkey (p.96); Curtis, Cowell & Walker 1995a / A Silver Bowl of Artaxerxes I (pl. XXVIIIa-b); Tokyo National Museum 2003a / Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan (p.44, cat 18); Curtis & Tallis 2005 / Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia (cat. 104, p. 116); Treister M 2009a / Silver Phialai from the Prokhorovka Burial-mound No. 1 (pp.97, 105, fig. 10.1)
Location: On display (G52/dc3)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat' 2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire' 2003 18 Oct-21 Dec, Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 'Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan' 2003 5 Aug-5 Oct, Tokyo National Museum, 'Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan' 1995-2005 17 Nov-Aug, BM, G52/IRAN/7/8 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN/7/14 1975-ca 1990 Jul-, BM, Iranian Room [IR] case 10, no. 12 1960s BM, Persian Landing 1931-ca 1939 BM, Room 20: Persian Room 1923-1931 BM, King Edward VII Building: Franks Display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124082
Registration number: 1897,1231.180
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BM.123257 (ex-BM Number); Miscellaneous number: OT.180
Conservation: Treatment: 12 May 1994; Treatment: 29 Nov 2004

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