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accession number:	1930.328.1
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Dancers and Musicians from Phrygia, 1–100 CE. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period. 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:				Dancers and Musicians from Phrygia
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creation date:			1–100 CE
creation date earliest:		1
creation date latest:		100
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period
technique:	schist
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art
	opening date:   1945-10-02T05:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art</i>. 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
	<i>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</i>. 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
	<i>Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art
</i>. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 12-August 24, 1997).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1930
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1930–
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CITATIONS

	
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	Hollis, Howard. C. “Indian Sculpture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 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. <em>The Arts and Man</em>. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 416b, p. 501
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	Lyons, Islay, and Harald Ingholt. <em>Gandhāran Art in Pakistan</em>. [New York]: Pantheon Books, 1957.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 26, 160, pl. IV, no. 1
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> 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. <em>The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans</em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 58
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	Fabri, Charles Louis. <em>Discovering Indian Sculpture: A Brief History</em>. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1970.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: pl. 19, p. 31
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	Goldman, Bernard. “Parthians at Gandhāra.” <em>East and West</em>, 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.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 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. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. 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
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	Masselos, Jim, Jackie Menzies, Pratapaditya Pal, and Reis Wenger Flora. <em>Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art</em>. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 50a, p. 107
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	Kurita, Isao 栗田功. <em>Gandhāran art </em>[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
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