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The Lydian Treasure

LID

SILVER

Diameter 21.3 cm.
Diameter of handle 3.7 cm.
Weight 466.89 gr.

USAK MUSEUM

The convex circular lid has a short horizontal rim, slightly upturned at the edge, and a swivelling ring handle. In the centre of the lid is a rosette of twenty-five petals, encircled by a pinecone decoration which extends in eleven increasingly larger rings as far as the rim. The pattern appears in reverse on the inside. The centre of the rosette is a hemispherical knob, riveted to the lid, to which are soldered both ends of a vertical semicircular ring which holds the swivelling ring handle.




                       

This site prepared by Tayfun Kalyoncu on 28.02.1997 and last updated on 01.05.1999.
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