An East Greek Silver Phiale (Libation Bowl), Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE Price - Over $10000 Wahibreemakhet’s rich burial

Wahibreemakhet’s rich burial

carved from steatite

dated 1993

a variety of powders ground from charcoal and yellow and red ochres are finger-painted on the breasts and upper bodies of the singers and dancers

Vandier d’Abbadie

An East Greek Silver Phiale (Libation Bowl), Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE Price - Over $10000 Wahibreemakhet’s rich burialThis fine silver vessel is known as a phiale, an ancient Greek term for such broad, shallow bowls. Its origins lie in Achaemenid Persia, and this bowl demonstrates the interaction between Greek and Achaemenid forms well. Used for drinking or pouring libations, it has a carinated or ridged shoulder, a turned out rim, and a band of radiating petals on the underside. In the center of the bowl is a shallow raised boss that allowed the phiale to be held