id:			111808
accession number:	1930.328.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.328.2
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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
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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: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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"

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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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 740
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 15
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n30

	Sengupta, Arputha Rani. <em>Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols.</em> Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 1, P, 127, fig. 3.2
	url:		

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