Documenting
the Visual Arts

Home
About the Photographer
Photographic Services
Image usage
Scheduling a session
Contact

Indexed Historical Archive

Photographic Portfolio
Coins
Cosmetic containers
Gems
Cameos
Diamonds
Intaglios
Jewelry
Earrings
Pendants
Rings
Watches
Miniature sculpture
Stamps


Copyright © 2021
Genevra Kornbluth.
Please see my policies on image usage.

Last updated
February 18, 2021

Historical Archive: Parthian Rhyton

ivory, height 41.6 cm (16.38 inches)
second-first century BCE, from Old Nisa (near Ashgabat, southern Turkmenistan)
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum CA-15049


Click to enlarge.
oblique, full
Click to enlarge.
frontal, full
Click to enlarge.
frontal, protome: horned lion?
Click to enlarge.
protome head, oblique view
Click to enlarge.
protome profile