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Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
7 1/4 in. (222 grams, 18.5 cm wide).
With everted flaring rim, the exterior plain, the interior with ridged band at the shoulder composed of alternating X-motifs, stylised opposing plants, and dots interspersed with transverse bands.
PROVENANCE:
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
LITERATURE:
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 similar bowl.
FOOTNOTES:
Similar segment-shaped silver bowls with partial gilding, decorated on the inside with friezes in the form of garlands or wickerwork, have been found in many nomad mounds in the Caucasus region. Treister attributes them to Parthian workshops. Such cups could also be undecorated or decorated only with a frieze of Ionian cymatium along the edge.
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