Shallow Vessel
Among the most splendid of Achaemenid arts are hammered-silver or gold vessels. This type of bowl, known by the Greek word "phiale," meaning shallow vessel, was used for ritual liquid offerings. The depressions take the form of lotus buds, an Egyptian motif that became popular...
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Arthur Upham Pope Collection, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1939, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N4491]; Joseph Brummer, Sale, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, May 11, 1949, no. 128; Walters Art Musueum, Baltimore, 1949, by purchase.
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