Oil Lamp in the Shape of Silenus Straddling a Wine-Skin
This oil lamp is in the shape of Silenus, the Greco-Roman god of drunkeness and tutor to thewine god Bacchus, sitting on an inflated oxhide that is serving as a large wine skin. He reaches back and holds the ox's tail thus creating a handle for the lamp. The child Bacchus hold...
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686
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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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9
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.37_Gp_BW.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.37 |
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