Arts of the Hellenized East by Martha L. Carter and Prudence O. Harper

The alsabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the worlds most spectacular collections of ancient silver vessels and other objects made of precious metals. Dating from the centuries following Alexander the Greats conquest of Iran and Bactria in the middle of the 4th century BCE up to the advent of the Islamic era, the beautiful bowls, drinking vessels, platters and other objects in this catalogue suggest that some of the best Hellenistic silverwork was not made in the Greek heartlands, but in this eastern outpost of the Seleucid empire.