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Title: Bowl with a male bust within a medallion
Period: Sasanian
Date: ca. early 4th century CE
Geography: Iran
Culture: Sasanian
Medium: Silver
Dimensions:
Diam. 23.3-23.6
H. 7.2
Thickness at rim: 0.44-0.56
Weight 597g
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1955
Object Number: 55.57
“Sept Mille Ans d’Art en Iran,” Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, Villa Hügel, Essen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Palazzo Reale, Milan, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Denver Art Museum, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1961–1966.
"Origin and Influence, Cultural Contacts: Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Classical World." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 18, 1970–April 23, 1971.
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