Dancing maenad. Oscillum
Marble.Late 1st century CE. Inv. No. I 38.Vienna, Museum of Art HistoryPhoto by Ilya Shurygin
Dancing maenad. Oscillum.
Marble.
Late 1st century CE.
Late 1st century CE.
Inv. No. I 38.
Vienna, Museum of Art History
(Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum).
Description:
The relief presents a maenad in extatic dance before a veiled phallus symbolizing fertility. In her right hand she holds a thyrsus, in the left one — a snake.
Credits:
© 2012. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Info: museum information materials.
Info: museum information materials.
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