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Just a moment
Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) · 300–500 CE · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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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