id:			111809
accession number:	1930.328.3
share license status:	CC0
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Bacchanalian Relief, AD 1–100. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period (AD 1–320). Schist; overall: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.328.3

title:				Bacchanalian Relief
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creation date:			AD 1–100
creation date earliest:		1
creation date latest:		100
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:			

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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 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 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).

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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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wall description: 
A procession of people clapping, blowing a long horn, dancing, and carrying grapes once adorned a Buddhist monument in a region that had Greco-Roman roots extending back to 326 BC, with the arrival of Alexander of Macedon and his successors. Bacchanalian scenes were carved on the lower portions of public monuments to reference the joyful abundance of life--which may well be enhanced with veneration of the monument and donations to the monastery with which it was associated.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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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	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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