The Ashgabat National Museum of History, Turkmenistan Detail of Parthian ivory rhytons with the lion-griffin endings (3rd century BCE) from old Nisa in the Ashgabat National Museum of History, Turkmenistan. Photos by Joyce Pinsker [flickr] Nisian rhytons and Hellenistic cults in Parthia (3rd-2nd century BCE).[ the State Museum of the East, Moscow link] “The Old … Continue reading Parthian ivory rhytons from Old Nisa, 3rd – 2nd C BCE