About the Artwork
Court Servant with Covered Bowl from the Persian capital Parsa (Persepolis)
486 - 465 BCE
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Persian
Unknown
Limestone
Overall: 11 1/2 × 14 inches (29.2 × 35.6 cm)
Sculpture
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
78.45
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Provenance
(Charles Dikran Kelekian)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. DIA Statewide Services Travelling Exhibition. Detroit, February 5, 1984 - December 16, 1985, cat. no. 15 (ill.).
Peck, Elsie Holmes. “Achaemenid Relief Fragments from Persepolis,” Bulletin of the DIA 79, no. 1/2 (2005): 25, (fig. 5).
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Persian, Court Servant with Covered Bowl from the Persian capital Parsa (Persepolis), 486 - 465 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.45.
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