Phoenician Bowl Embossed with Warriors and Hunters in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Deep bowl
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician, Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–612 B.C.

Dimensions: Height: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Medium or Technique: Gilded silver

Classification: Vessels

Accession Number: 27.170

Design in two friezes. In the top register soldiers march among date palms accompanied by a mounted rider and two chariots. One chariot is Assyrian in style and carries a bearded man with a conical hat who appears to be Assyrian. The other chariot appears Egyptian and carries a clean-shaven man who also seems to be Egyptian, as do the troops themselves. Below, the "Egyptian" soldiers hunt a lion in a landscape of hills, trees, and plants. The bowl perfectly illustrates the mixture of styles that characterizes Phoenician art of the eastern Mediterranean region.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/deep-bowl-242466