id: 111806 accession number: 1930.328 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.328 updated: 2020-11-04 19:46:24.642000 Bacchanalian Relief, AD 1-100. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan Period (AD 1-320). Schist; overall: 49.6 x 150.5 cm (19 1/2 x 59 1/4 in.); first section: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.); second section: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.); third section: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.328 title: Bacchanalian Relief title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 1-100 creation date earliest: 1 creation date latest: 100 current location: 242A Ancient India creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan Period (AD 1-320) technique: schist department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 49.6 x 150.5 cm (19 1/2 x 59 1/4 in.); First Section: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.); Second Section: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.); Third Section: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art opening date: 1945-10-02T05:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2, 1945-February 4, 1946). title: India's Art opening date: 1949-12-02T05:00:00 India's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art (11/13/1985-1/15/1986), Asia Society Galleries, NYC (2/13-4/6/1986), and Seattle Art Museum (5/13-7/13/1986): "Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Phrygians with their trousers, tunics, and conical caps play music, dance, and clap, while Greek figures drink from fluted cups filled with wine decanted from pitchers filled from a wine skin, shown hefted on the shoulders of the figure at the right. The multicultural diversity of the region became pronounced after Alexander of Macedon left a contingent of Greeks to rule the territories of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the waning of the Hellenistic kingdoms in the first century BC, Scythians and Parthians from Central Asian and Iran took control of the region. By the first century AD, trade between the Roman Empire, India, and China had reached unprecedented proportions, bringing wealth and international merchants to the area. A procession of people clapping, blowing a long horn, dancing, and carrying grapes once adorned a Buddhist monument in a region that had Greco-Roman roots extending back to 326 BC, with the arrival of Alexander of Macedon and his successors. Bacchanalian scenes were carved on the lower portions of public monuments to reference the joyful abundance of life, which may well be enhanced with veneration of the monument and donations to the monastery with which it was associated. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 740 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 228 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n252 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 228 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n252 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 287 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n307 Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 335, fig. 14-15 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 16 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n31 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328/1930.328_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328/1930.328_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328/1930.328_full.tif