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Shallow Bowl with Three Friezes of Rosettes

Date

1st century B.C.

Medium

Gilt silver and garnet

Culture

Near Eastern (Parthian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

The shallow bowl is raised from a single sheet of silver and is parcel-gilt. The exterior is undecorated. It has an incised interior; gilded rosettes or blossoms arranged in three friezes set apart by wheel-cut grooves. A garnet decorates the center of the bowl. The green oxidation pattern on the spout of the rhyton 86.AM.754.1 conforms to the shape of this bowl, suggesting that it was buried with the bowl lying upside down on top of it.

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