Offering Bringer

ca. 500 BCE (Achaemenid)

34.9 cm 73 cm 10.1 cm

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A servant of the royal Achaemenid court at Persepolis (in present-day Iran) is shown carrying a covered vessel to the New Year's festival banquet. His clothing distinguishes him as a Mede. The Medes had dominated the Persian region until overthrown by the Achaemenids in 550 BC...

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13139
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Raphael Stora, Paris and New York, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1946, by purchase.
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en
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