id: 111807 accession number: 1930.328.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.328.1 updated: 2023-01-10 20:09:38.120000 Bacchanalian Relief, AD 1–100. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period (AD 1–320). Schist; overall: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.328.1 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: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 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: Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India opening date: 1985-11-13T05:00:00 Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art opening date: 1997-06-12T00:00:00 Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art . Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 12-August 24, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1930– footnotes: citations: --- 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 levels, bringing wealth and international merchants to the area. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Hollis, Howard. C. “Indian Sculpture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 17, no. 10, 1930, pp. 190–198. page number: Mentioned: pp. 190-93; Reproduced: p. 197 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137340 Stites, Raymond S. The Arts and Man. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940. page number: Reproduced: fig. 416b, p. 501 url: Lyons, Islay, and Harald Ingholt. Gandhāran Art in Pakistan. [New York]: Pantheon Books, 1957. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 26, 160, pl. IV, no. 1 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 740 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134 Rosenfield, John M. The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. page number: Reproduced: fig. 58 url: Fabri, Charles Louis. Discovering Indian Sculpture: A Brief History. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: pl. 19, p. 31 url: Goldman, Bernard. “Parthians at Gandhāra.” East and West, vol. 28, no. 1/4, 1978, pp. 189–202. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, between pp. 200-201 url: www.jstor.org/stable/29756456 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 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: Mentioned: pp. 172-174; Reproduced: cat. no. 87, p. 173 url: Masselos, Jim, Jackie Menzies, Pratapaditya Pal, and Reis Wenger Flora. Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 50a, p. 107 url: Kurita, Isao 栗田功. Gandhāran art [ガンダ-ラ美術 = Gandāra bijutsu]. Vol. 2. The world of the Buddha [佛陀の世界 = Budda no sekai] Tōkyō: Nigensha, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 186, figs. 534 & 535 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.1/1930.328.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.1/1930.328.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.1/1930.328.1_full.tif