An ongoing research project to reevaluate the luxury vessels of Parthian Iran and the Hellenistic Far East in partial collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum. In addition to symposia, a related exhibition and preliminary studies, this project will culminate in a large-scale study of Parthian, Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic silver. The primary goals for this project include new translations of all untranslated or mistranslated inscriptions, correction of technical information, art historical reevaluations of the dates and formal elements, exploration of new dating techniques, and, just as importantly, a new understanding of their function in Parthian and Hellenistic royal, religious and aristocratic culture. With funding from the Getty Research Institute, JPGM Department of Antiquities and Conservation and University of California, Irvine’s Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran.
- Catalogue Essays and Entries from the exhibition catalogue Persia: Iran and the Classical World. Eds. J. Spier, T. Potts, and S. Cole. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2022.
- March 11, 2022, Parthian Rhyton Study Day, Getty Villa (organized by Matthew Canepa, Sara Cole, Ken Lapatin and Susanne Gaensicke).
- Related Lectures:
The Getty Stag Rhyton and Parthian Aristocratic Culture: New Discoveries
Reevaluating Divine Imagery in Late Antique Iranian Metalwork
