Bowl
300–500
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.4 x 14 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE)
About
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.