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"description": "The decoration on this bowl\u2014a vine with a little nude, accompanied by musicians drinking wine from a rhyton\u2014is related to the Hellenistic cult of Dionysos, or Bacchus, which was brought to Iran by the Greeks and became absorbed into the cult of Anahita.",
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