AN ACHAEMENID SILVER KYATHOS

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ACHAEMENID SILVER KYATHOS
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
With shallow, circular bowl and long cylindrical handle with incised stylised lotus flower capital, the ring terminal above in the form of two conjoined lions, their confronting heads with mouths open
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Germany; acquired in the 1990s.

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Lot Essay

The British Museum has two similar ladles, including one purchased in Aleppo by C. L. Woolley in 1923, cf. J. Curtis and N. Tallis (eds), Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia, London, 2005, p. 127, nos 134 and 135.

For the subject in general cf. P. R. S. Moorey, 'Metal wine-sets in the Ancient Near East,' Iranica Antiqua, 15, 1980, pp. 182-197.

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