Reclining Figure of Silene

ca. 500 BCE (Late Archaic)

8.3 cm 4.2 cm 2.5 cm

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This satyr is a follower of the wine-god Dionysus shown holding a rhyton, or drinking-horn, in one hand. Together with a similar object (acc. no. 54.1029), these satyr figures decorated the crosspieces of a wooden tripod.

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