id: 111808 accession number: 1930.328.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.328.2 updated: 2020-11-04 19:46:24.885000 Bacchanalian Relief, 1-100. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan Period (AD 1-320). Schist; overall: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.328.2 title: Bacchanalian Relief title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 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: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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 levels, bringing wealth and international merchants to the area. --- 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. 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. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n30 Sengupta, Arputha Rani. Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 1, P, 127, fig. 3.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.2/1930.328.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.2/1930.328.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.328.2/1930.328.2_full.tif