Object/Work
|
Catalog Level:
item
Type:
rhyton
|
Controlled list
Authority
|
|
Classification
|
Terms:
Near
Eastern art
Greek
and Roman art
|
Controlled list
|
|
Titles or Names
|
Text:
Stag-Shaped Drinking Horn
Preference:
preferred
Type: repository
Text:
Stag Rhyton
Preference:
alternate
Type: repository
|
Free text
Controlled list
|
|
Creation
|
Creator Description:
unknown Parthian
|
Free text
|
|
|
Identity:
unknown Parthian
Roles:
silversmith
|
Authority
Authority
|
|
|
Creation Date:
ca. 50 BCE-ca. 50 CE
Earliest:
-0060 Latest:
0060
|
Free text
Controlled format
|
|
Style/Period/ Group/Movement
|
Indexing Term: Parthian
|
Authority
|
|
Measurements
|
Dimensions Description:
26.5 cm (height) (10 3/8 inches); diameter of rim:
12.7 cm (5 inches)
|
Free text
|
|
|
Value: 26.5 Unit: cm
Type: height
Dimensions Extent: rim
Value: 12.7 Unit: cm Type:
diameter
|
Controlled list and controlled
format
|
|
Materials and Techniques
|
Description:
gilt silver with inlaid glass eyes and garnet rim
|
Free text
|
| |
Material Name:
silver
gold
glass
garnet
|
Authority
|
|
Inscriptions/Marks
|
Transcription or Description: Aramaic
inscription on the belly of the stag dedicates the
rhyton to Artemis
|
Free text
|
|
Subject Matter
|
Indexing terms:
object
(utilitarian)
animal
stag
ceremonial
object
drinking
|
Authority
|
|
Descriptive Note
|
Text: The spout on this rhton is now
missing, but the hole remains visible. Stylistic features
suggest that this rhyton was made in northwest Iran
in the period from 50 BCE to 50 CE. This region had
been part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire until Alexander
the Great's conquest. After his death in 323 BCE,
the Hellenistic Greek Seleucid dynasty, whose kingdom
stretched from Turkey to Afghanistan, ruled this area.
As Seleucid authority began to weaken In the later
200s BCE, a group of semi-nomadic people called the
Parthians, from the steppes of south central Asia,
challenged the dynasty and by the mid-100s BCE had
firm control of this area of Iran. This complicated
political history left its legacy in the art of the
area. Rhyta of this form had a long history in earlier
art of Iran, but the floral motifs were drawn from
Seleucid art.
|
Free text
|
|
|
Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online
Page: 21 July 2006
|
Authority
|
| Current
Location |
Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa Malibu (Los Angeles,
California, United States)
Repository Number:
86.AM.753
|
Authority
Free text
|
|
|
Revised 6 December 2006
