Bowl, 300-500. 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.

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Keywords: 4th-6th, art, century, cleveland, heritage, iran, metalwork, museum, sasanian, silver, unknown