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    "localId": "139701",
    "label": "Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "139701",
    "contentType": "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.478",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80037058"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.478/1963.478_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.478/1963.478_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.478/1963.478_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.4 x 14 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1963.478"
}

{
    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "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",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974"
        },
        "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.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151993"
        },
        "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n39"
        },
        "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",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152114"
        },
        "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n37"
        },
        "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",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079697"
        },
        "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"
        }
    },
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.478",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:09:04.084000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.478/1963.478_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 139701,
    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
    "coll": "Near Eastern Art",
    "med": "silver",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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