- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Exterior plain. Interior is decorated with repoussé pattern of vases and grapevines. The central and side lobes are gilded on the interior. Weight: 202.9 g.
- Label
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Wine bowls of elliptical shape formed an important category of silver vessels made in Iran and its neighbors during the sixth and seventh centuries. These bowls were often decorated with images of tigers, panthers, or vegetation. Such imagery was associated with the Greek god Dionysos, whose cult spread over a wide area of the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia.
- Published References
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- Massoume Price. Ancient Iran. Culture of Iran Youth Series, 1st ed. .
- Ann C. Gunter, Paul Jett. Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and Mainz, Germany, 1992. cat. 30, pp. 43, 180-1.
- Collection Area(s)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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