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Bronze Spherical Bowl - LO.663
Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: 100
AD
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
3.25" (8.3cm) high
x 5" (12.7cm) wide
Collection: Classical Antiquities
Style: Roman
Medium: Bronze
£7,500.00
Location: Great Britain
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By 546 BCE, Cyrus the Great had defeated Croesus,
the Lydian king of fabled wealth, and had secured
control of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, Armenia,
and the Greek colonies along the Levant. Moving
east, he took Parthia (land of the Arsacids, not to be
confused with Parsa, which was to the southwest),
Chorasmis, and Bactria. He besieged and captured
Babylon in 539 and released the Jews who had been
held captive there, thus earning his immortalization in
the Book of Isaiah. When he died in 529, Cyrus's
kingdom extended as far east as the Hindu Kush in
present-day Afghanistan.
His successors were less successful. Cyrus's
unstable son, Cambyses II, conquered Egypt but later
he died in July, 522 BCE, as the result of either an
accident or suicide during a revolt led by a priest,
Gaumata, who usurped the throne by pretending to
be Bardiya (Cambyses' brother, who had been
assassinated secretly before Cambyses started out
for his Egyptian campaign in 525 BCE) until
overthrown in 522 BCE by a member of a lateral
branch of the Achaemenid family, Darius I (also
known as Darayarahush or Darius the Great). Darius
attacked the Greek mainland, which had supported
rebellious Greek colonies under his aegis, but as a
result of his defeat at the Battle of Marathon in 490
was forced to retract the limits of the empire to Asia
Minor.
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