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"tombstone": "Horse-Shaped Drinking Vessel, 200\u2013325 CE. Iran, Sasanian Empire (224\u2013651 CE). Silver, partially gilt; overall: 12 x 10.8 x 32.7 cm (4 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1964.41",
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"title": "Horse-Shaped Drinking Vessel",
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"title": "All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection",
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"description": "The horse was a favorite artistic subject in ancient Iran, where horse breeding flourished. This muscular Sasanian stallion was descended from the royal and sacred Nisean breed of the Achaemenian Persians. Although Sasanian horse trappings were elaborate, they did not include stirrups for mounting. In this rendition, the steed lies still, as camels in the Near East do today, waiting for its rider to mount. The medallions on each shoulder contain busts, perhaps of rulers of different parts of the Sasanian Empire, holding their rings of authority.",
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"citation": "de la Fert\u00e9, Etienne Coche. \u201cPalma et Laurus. Un Monogramme et Un Objet d\u2019art Pal\u00e9ochr\u00e9tiens En Relation Avec Les Courses de l\u2019hippodrome.\u201d Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen, vol. 3, 1961, pp. 134\u201347.",
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"citation": "Ghirshman, Roman. \u201cNotes Iraniennes XI. Le Rhyton En Iran.\u201d Artibus Asiae, vol. 25, no. 1, 1962, pp. 57\u201380.",
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"page_number": "Listed and reproduced no. 152.",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152021."
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G., and Joseph Ternbach. \u201cTwo Silver Rhyta.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 8 (October 1966): 289\u2013317.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297-298, figs. 6, 8, Back Cover",
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"citation": "Ghirshman, Roman. \u201cLa selle en Iran,\u201d Iranica Antiqua IX, Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1972, pp. 94-107.",
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"citation": "Gibbons, D.F., K.C. Ruhl and L.S. Staikoff, \"Analysis of Sasanian Silver Objects: A Comparison of Techniques\" Archaeological Chemistry. June 1, 1974 , 11-21.",
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"citation": "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. 7",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n27"
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"citation": "Harper, Prudence Oliver. The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire. New York: Asia Society, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28; mentioned: pl.1, pp. 29,30",
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"citation": "Merhav, Rivka. A Glimpse into the Past: The Joseph Ternbach Collection. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1981.",
"page_number": "p. 12-13, illust.",
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"citation": "Herrmann, Georgina, et al. \"Parthian and Sasanian Saddlery: New Light from the Roman West.\" Archaeologia Iranica et Orientalis: Miscellanea in Honorem Louis Vanden Berghe. Belgium, Macmillan, 1989. p 757-809.",
"page_number": "Discussed p. 767 Pl. VI, VII.",
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"citation": "Vanden Berghe, Louis. Hofkunst van de Sassanieden: het Perzische rijk tussen Rome en China (224-642) ; 12 februari tot 25 april 1993. Brussels: Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 1993.",
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"citation": "Kosmin, Paul. \"Banqueting on the Move.\" In Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.Susanne Ebbinghaus,ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.",
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