Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl on ring foot, with relatively tall, flaring foot. Flattened on resting surface of base ring. Rim thickened on interior, plain; chased line around circumference about 1 cm. below inner rim. Centering mark and concentric circles on ring foot interior.

  Bowl entirely decorated with double pattern of twenty-one radiating petals, with smaller petals radiating in between the wider ones. Interior center, plain.

• Label

  The shape of this bowl is a Hellenistic and Roman descendant of the phiale, or shallow drinking bowl with a central omphalos, introduced during the period of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-331 B.C.E.) (see F1974.30). Most preserved examples of the shape are ceramic, documenting a close correspondence between clay and precious metalware in the Seleucid (305-95 B.C.E.) and Parthian (ca. 160 B.C.E.-224 C.E.) periods.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)

  Nomads and Nobility: Art from the Ancient Near East (September 28, 1987 to November 1, 1992)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  100s, 300s

• Topic

  Repoussé, Hammering, Parthian period (247 BCE - 224 CE), Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Chasing, Metal-work

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)