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Bowl

300–500 CE

Iran, Sasanian Empire

(224–651 CE)
Medium
silver
Measurements
Overall: 6.4 x 14 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Weight: 27 oz
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1963.478
Public Domain
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Location
102A Ancient Near East
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Description

The decoration on this bowl—a vine with a little nude, accompanied by musicians drinking wine from a rhyton—is related to the Hellenistic cult of Dionysos, or Bacchus, which was brought to Iran by the Greeks and became absorbed into the cult of Anahita.
Scalloped, shallow silver bowl with a narrow, rectangular base. Vines wind around the exterior, with the scallop sections depicting stylized people playing instruments among the vines. From our viewpoint, they flank a central section with a short-legged animal with short, pointed ears leaping forward and turning back to stick their muzzle in a fruit. The exterior and alternating sections of the interior glimmer gold.

Bowl

300–500 CE

Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE)

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