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LOT 0587
Hellenistic Bronze Bowl
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.
6 1/4 in. (145 grams, 16 cm wide).
With high tin content, the body formed with a D-section wall and rounded base, damaged. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Maierovskii III Burial-mound no. 4/2002, Burial no. 3B, Moscow, State Historical Museum, inv. no. 112873, list Б 2078/77, in Treister, M., 'Parthian and Early Sasanian 'Imports' in the Burials of the Nomads of Eastern Europe (2nd Century BCE-3rd Century CE)' in Choref, M.M., Materials in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Crimea, Moscow, 2018, pp.118-210, fig.4, 1-3, for a nearly identical bowl but with ornaments.
FootnotesSimilar segment-shaped silver bowls, sometimes with partial gilding and decorated on the inside have been found in many nomad mounds of the Caucasus and in the territories once dominated by the Arsacid Empire. They are attributed to Parthian workshops by Pfrommer and M. Treister.
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