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Plaque depicting a Parthian manseated in banquet posture

Plaque depicting a Parthian manseated in banquet posture

Plaque depicting a Parthian manseated in banquet posture

Parthian period, 238 BCE - 224 CE

Clay

H: 9.5; W: 12.5 cm

Bequest of Joseph Ternbach, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum

Accession number:

87.160.767

Archaeology/Western Asiatic Antiquities

Plaque depicting a Parthian manseated in banquet posture

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