Motif and place
Silbûs: how an outline gets onto an object
Silbûs — written Sülbüs in official Turkish — is the carrying form of the Silbûs Collection. The ridge is engraved into metal and glass as it is, without being stylised, with the coordinate of the place set beside it.
Also written Sülbüs Dağı (official and common Turkish spelling).
The easy way to turn a mountain into a design is to reduce it: two triangles, a snow line, done. We do not do that. The ridge stays as it is, so the thing that ought to be recognisable stays recognisable.
The only thing that completes the outline is the coordinate. A place name can change over time and can mean different things to different people. A coordinate does not move.
On the spelling: in official records and in common Turkish use, the mountain is written Sülbüs. On this site we write Silbûs. They are the same mountain. The reason is plain — the brand is called Silbûs û Tarî, and we did not want to spell one name two ways in a single line. Whichever spelling brings you here, this is the place meant.
We make no claim on this page about the height of the mountain, the origin of its name, or the content of the stories told about it. There are many conflicting accounts, and putting an unsourced sentence next to a product would be unfair to what is being described. These pages will grow as we work with verified sources.