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title: Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase
author: Allard Pierson Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11909/ptolemaic-silver-wine-vase/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase
_Authored by Allard Pierson Museum_
## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/11909.jpg)
## Image Caption
Different cultural traditions met in [Hellenistic](https://www.worldhistory.org/Hellenic_World/) [Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/egypt/), as this small [silver](https://www.worldhistory.org/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](https://www.worldhistory.org/greece/) and Egypt, and its shape is influenced by [Achaemenid](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/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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## Cite This Work
### APA
Museum, A. P. (2020, February 15). Ptolemaic Silver Wine Vase. *World History Encyclopedia*.
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## License & Copyright
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