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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük

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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
Accession number: 
AN1913.678
Collection: 
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük, with central omphalos and seven lobes. 1913.676; 318.6g. P. R. S. Moorey, Cemeteries of the first millennium B.C., at Deve Hüyük (1980) cat. 99.  

Shallow phialai with an omphalos at the centre and a number of lobes on the sides alternating with stylised lotuses are a characteristic Achaemenid type of drinking-vessel; compare the elaborate silver examples in the Lydian Treasure (I. Özgen & J. Öztürk, Heritage Recovered: The Lydian Treasure (1996), e.g. p.87. no. 33), and the BM example with an inscription of Artaxerxes. 

See E. Dusinberre, Empire, Authority and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (2013), 128-40.