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Bacchanalian Relief
Wine and dancing carved onto the steps of a Buddhist stupa.
What
Three schist panels of figures between columns: musicians in conical caps play and dance while others drink and carry wine.
Why
Carved around AD 100 as stair risers for a Buddhist monument in the Buner area of Gandhara; the Cleveland Museum of Art holds them (1930.328), CC0.
Notice
Cleveland’s record reads the capped figures as Phrygians and the drinkers as Greek.
“The bacchanal travelled as far as the roads did.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930.328.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Gandharan, Buner area
- Era
- Gandhara, c. 100
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — a work of antiquity (Pompeii / the Greek vase canon). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-11-01. Licence tag cc-zero, read on the Wikimedia Commons file record on 2026-11-01. Held by The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930.328.
