1979.357: Shallow Bowl
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1979.357
- Title
- Shallow Bowl
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 6th-4th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Iran
- Period
- Achaemenid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/289284
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Technique
- Hammered
- Dimensions
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4.7 × 16.9 cm, 44.67 g (1 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Thickness of wall at rim: 0.1 cm (1/16 in.)
Weight: 280 grams
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, MA, (by 1979), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
- Accession Year
- 1979
- Object Number
- 1979.357
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Hammered from a single sheet of metal, this silver phiale (libation bowl) has a shallow central navel or omphalos and is decorated with a pattern of radiating petals or leaves and, inserted between them, 14 lobes rendered in repoussé. The tips of the petals split to form an arch above each lobe, and a small upside-down teardrop appears where they split, as if growing from a calyx of leaves. There is a centering mark on the undersaide of the omphalos, and there are fine horizontal striations especially on the exterior of the rim.
Black and brown patina with patches of green; crack in one lobe.
Publication History
- Fogg Exhibit Explores Rich Tradition of Islamic Art, Harvard Gazette (July 25, 1980), p. 4
- Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 150-151, fig. 4.14; p. 358, cat. 30
Exhibition History
- Re-View: S422 Ancient & Byzantine Art & Numismatics, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/12/2008 - 06/18/2011
- 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/24/2017; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050
- Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/07/2018 - 01/06/2019
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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