Anahita Vessel
300–500
- Medium
- silver, cast, raised, repoussé, chased, and gilted
- Dimensions
- Overall: 18.5 x 11.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE)
About
These dancers may be sacred images of the Zoroastrian religion of the Sasanians or they may be bacchantes, followers of a cult of the Roman wine god, Bacchus, who was popular in the Near East.