Nana with the Sun and the Moon (Khwarazmian silver bowl) 658 CE

"Silver bowl; raised from a circular piece of sheet metal with embossed design in the centre enclosed within a simple decorated roundel. Within, a depiction of a four-armed crowned Goddess, possibly Nana, is seated on a recumbent lion with two upper arms holding a solar disc and lunar crescent aloft. The lower right hand holds a sceptre and the lower left holds a shallow hemispherical bow. There is a slightly thickened interior lip and a Khorezmian inscription engraved around the exterior rim. It is missing a hollow cylindrical foot ring for which the attachment marks remain on the underside of the bowl."

-taken from BritishMuseum 


Nana with the Sun and the Moon (Khwarazmian silver bowl) 658 CE. Diameter: 8 centimetres (foot ring, exterior) (foot ring, exterior). Diameter: 12.40 centimetres. Height: 4.60 centimetres. Weight: 127.50 grammes. Thickness: 0.10 centimetres (at the rim). Volume: 340 centimetres.










Source/Quote:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1877-0820-1

https://aryaakasha.com/2021/08/20/on-indo-european-nana/

https://tt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Khwarazm_Bowl_(BM).JPG

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