Dionysos and a Satyr (unfinished group)
Pentelic marble. Early 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 245.Athens, National Archaeological MuseumPhoto by Ilya Shurygin
Dionysos and a Satyr (unfinished group).
Pentelic marble. Early 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 245.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum
(Αθήνα, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο).
Origin:
Outside the precinct of Olympeion, Athens.
Description:
Dionysos, nude, with long tresses of hair hanging down to his breast, has a similar stance to that of the Apollon Lykeios. He has his left arm around the nude Satyr. The group was not completed and the figures are worked mainly at the front and sides.
Literature:
G. Richter, RM, 1962-3, 54, pl. 22, 1.
Credits:
© 2014. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Data: museum annotation.
Data: museum annotation.
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