Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)

Silver phiale, unknown provenance: British Museum, BM ANE 1994,0127.1.  Ht. 4.7cm, Diam 29cm, Wt 803g.

Shallow phiale with omphalos at centre, and fourteen lobes (stylised lotus-flowers). Around the rim, inscription of Artaxerxes I (465-424 BC) in Old Persian cuneiform: 

"Artaxerxes, the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Xerxes the king, of Xerxes [who was] son of Darius the king, the Achaemenid, in whose house this silver drinking cup (batugaza) was made.''

This object is an excellent example of a super-elite version of the common Achaemenid phiale-type; see also the similarly elaborate silver phialai from the Lydian treasure, and the much simpler bronze versions from Deve Hüyük.  

See J. Curtis and N. Tallis, Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (2005), pp.114-5 no. 103. For an identical example in Washington, see A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (2007), pp.316-7 (with images).