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Source 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.
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Document identity
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139701
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Bowl
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object
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Source metadata
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139701
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object
title
Bowl
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.
date
300–500 CE
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language
en
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Q80037058
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Metalwork
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6.4 x 14 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
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Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE)
accession
1963.478
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silver
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Bowl, 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
collection
Near Eastern Art
citations
1
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>50, no. 10 (December 1963): 263–294.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 295, no. 150
2
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Sasanian Art in Cleveland.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>51, no. 4 (April 1964): 66–92.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 86-88, figs. 25-27.
3
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 15
4
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G., and Joseph Ternbach. “Two Silver Rhyta.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 53, no. 8 (October 1966): 289–317.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 300-303, figs. 12, 15
5
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 15
6
citation
Overlaet, Bruno, ed. <em>Hofkunst van de Sassanieden, Het Perzische Rijk Tussen Rome En China (224-642)</em>. Brussels, KMKG, 1993.
page_number
Discussed p. 105, Plate 93.
7
citation
Duchesne-Guillemin, Marcelle. "Les Instruments De Musique Dans L'art Sassanide." <em>Iranica Antiqua / Suppléments</em>, Belgium: 1993.
page_number
Reproduced p. 88, fig. 29
8
citation
Carter, Martha L. “Three Silver Vessels from Tibet’s Earliest Historical Era: A Preliminary Study.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 3 (1998): 22–47.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 28, fig. 7
9
citation
Kosmin, Paul. "Banqueting on the Move." In <em>Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings</em>.Susanne Ebbinghaus,ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 330 and 363; Reproduced: pp. 330, 331, fig. 7.23; p. 363, cat. 56
10
citation
Chen, Yi. "Drinking Like a Chinese, or Not? New Drinking Vessels and Practices in China's Middle Period." In <em>A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink in China, e</em>dited by Nicole T. C. Chiang, 59-86. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Palace Museum, 2025.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68-69, fig. 3.10
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:09:04.084000
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139701
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Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Near Eastern Art
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silver
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