Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase

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by Allard Pierson Museum
published on 15 February 2020

Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase — Different cultural traditions met in Hellenistic Egypt, as this small silver wine vase illustrates (11 cm in height; ca. 200-150 BCE; APM inv. no. 3397). It is decorated with acanthus and lotus leaves, floral motifs from respectively Greece and Egypt, and its shape is influenced by Achaemenid Persian vessels. The vase derives from the collection of William MacGregor (1848-1937), who supported the excavations of Édouard Naville and W.M. Flinders Petrie.

Image courtesy of the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.

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