Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysus

ca. 190 CE (Roman Imperial)

234.9 cm 120.7 cm 101.6 cm

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The triumphal march of Dionysus (or Bacchus, as he was generally known in Rome) through the lands of India was equated in Roman thought with the triumph of the deceased over death. At the left, Dionysus rides in a chariot pulled by panthers. Preceding him is a procession of hi...

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[Excavated from the so-called Licinian tomb, via Piave, Rome, 1885]; Clemente Maraini, 1885, by excavation; Don Marcello Massarenti, Rome, by 1894, by purchase [marble no. 1]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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