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Bowl

300–500 CE · silver

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineBowl, 300–500 CE. Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE). Silver; overall: 6.4 x 14 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1963.478
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