Satyr

Greek original: 3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)

13.7 cm 28 cm 7.5 cm

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The satyr's outstretched right arm once supported a figure of the drunken Dionysus, now lost, whose left arm circled the satyr's shoulders. Hellenistic artists frequently carved similar scenes, fascinated both by group compositions and extreme forms of human behavior.

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14559
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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