It is for the Civ III Decade contests, we need an award icon and my own attempt to create one resulted in this.

I am not very used to making (partly) 2d gfx though, and am unsure if it looks that good.

http://i.imgur.com/qN3mK.png

Maybe tone down the lens flare a bit or make the lettering a bit darker. It's rather hard to read.

Text over graphics is a great sin.

The perspective looks wrong (or extreme) to me: the top of the bowl should be flatter.

Centre the text.

Less faded red?