Dionysus with a Satyr

2nd-1st century BCE (Hellenistic)

8.3 cm 14.9 cm 4.9 cm

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In Hellenistic and Roman art, Dionysus is shown as a beardless youth, contrasting with his appearance on vases. The god is represented here leaning drunkenly on a member of his entourage while still holding his drinking rhyton (horn-shaped cup).

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35927
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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