By Michael Pfrommer
This seriously illustrated catalogue is dedicated to the Getty Museum’s number of silver and gold from the Hellenized East—one of the biggest but assembled. one of the gadgets integrated are rhyta, bowls, cups, jewellery, and ornamental gold and silver embellishes for horse bridles and garments. In an in depth creation, the writer dates a few of the teams of gadgets and areas them inside of a much broader cultural and archaeological context, delivering an in depth stylistic research of the decorative motifs of many items. Of specific significance is the inclusion of illustrations of a few fifty little-known comparative gadgets in addition to wide bibliographic references.
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C . 274 O n the bowls the calyx n o w fills the entire height o f the frieze, a feature that is typical the shoots have been developed i n the companion sys- for almost all o f the bowls i n treasure I and other related t e m , others f o l l o w the conventional tradition o f Greek pieces. decorations. center leaf o f the acanthus calyx i n comparison w i t h T h e traditional Greek f o r m was used for a n u m b e r 275 W o r t h n o t i n g is the greater animation o f the earlier examples. o f the later pieces a m o n g the Getty bowls (nos.
1 - 3 , 9 - 1 2 ) century B . c . at the latest, r o u g h l y the same t i m e as the or a small leaf calyx (nos. 4 - 8 ) . I n addition, three o f the reign o f Mithridates I I . Finally the Indo-Greek k i n g bowls bear the m o t i f o f an inverted anchor w i t h a d o l - N i k i a s struck his coins i n the seventies o f the first cen- p h i n curled around i t o n feather scale medallions (nos. t u r y B . c . I t is t e m p t i n g to assign the silver bowls to the 1-3, fig. 20A-C). same period, but i t w i l l be demonstrated that they 2 1 2 A l t h o u g h the calyx is very frequently used o n H e l - belong to différent groups.
Claim to power o f a local dynasty that deliberately used fins o n bridles. the anchor to refer t o their f o r m e r overlords. T h e use o f tria there are representations o f fish, a m o n g t h e m an the anchor seems t o p r o c l a i m a f o r m a l linkage w i t h the example over 29 centimeters l o n g . Seleucids. Whether the first use o f the royal s y m b o l was plays an i m p o r t a n t role i n connection w i t h various dei- s i m p l y usurpation or an expression o f an actual official ties o n the g o l d w o r k f r o m the late Hellenistic or early connection between the t w o houses is hard to tell, b u t Imperial tombs f r o m Tillya-tepe i n n o r t h e r n A f g h a n i - i n the centuries that f o l l o w e d the collapse o f the Seleu- stan.