Antefix with Head of Silenus
This red fleshy face with a large bulbous nose and pointed ears belong to Silenus, a mythological creature with human and beast-like elements. A companion of Dionysus, Silenus is cloaked here in a white animal skin with the paws tied at the throat. His equine ears contrast to...
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23608
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object
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normalized
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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7
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.354_Fnt_SL.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.354_Fnt_SL.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.354_Fnt_SL.jpg |
| imageCount | 7 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.354 |
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