GANDHARA, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C. - EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

細節

Two silver cups
Gandhara, circa late 1st century B.C. - early 1st century A.D.
Each carinated, the plain upper portion waisted above a fluted ovoid bowl, one with the bottom of the cup intact the other with a pointillé inscription in Karoshti on the rim
3 3/8 in. (13 cm.), the higher
49.3 g and 135.2 g (2)

來源

Private Collection, England, prior to 1979

出版

F. Baratte, East and West: A Central Asian Silver Hoard from the Parthian Era, 2002, pp. 38, 59, figs. 21

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拍品專文

The Karoshti inscription reads, dhraasenasa, which means "[Property] of Dhraasena." For a pair of cups with similar iconography, from 1st century A.D. Italy, see A. Oliver, Jr., Silver for the Gods, 1977, p. 144-145, cat. nos. 96-97.