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accession number:	1930.328.1
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Bacchanalian Relief, 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
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creation date:			1-100
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 (AD 1-320)
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:		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 (organizer) (June 12-August 24, 1997).

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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"<br><br>Sydney, Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art", 6/11 - 8/24/97, exh. cat. no. 50a, color repr. p. 107.

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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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

	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

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