Bacchanalian Scene

1–100 CE
Overall: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)
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Silver striated vessels that were used as reliquaries are similar to the cup from which the second figure from the left drinks.

Description

The pleated garments and crowns of laurels suggest that these six figures were intended to appear like Greco-Roman people from the Mediterranean world. The male figure at the far right carries a skin, presumably full of wine, next to another bearded man holding a large footed vessel. A woman with a palm leaf on her arm—a sign of victory—gestures suggestively toward a man playing a drum. At the far left a figure drinks wine from a cup that the man at the far left may have just filled from his pitcher.
Bacchanalian Scene

Bacchanalian Scene

1–100 CE

Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period

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