Dionysus with Panther and Satyr
Marble (grechetto?).
Roman copy of 1st—2nd cent. CE of an Hellenistic work. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum

Dionysus with Panther and Satyr.

Marble (grechetto?).
Roman copy of 1st—2nd cent. CE of an Hellenistic work.

Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Museo Centrale Montemartini).

Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Halls of the Horti Lamiani.
Origin:
Found on the Esquiline in Viale Principessa Margherita, near the so-called temple of Minerva Medica.
Description:

8. Dionysus with Panther and Satyr (pl. 46)

H. 1.69 m. Marble, grechetto (?).
Restored: tip of nose of Dionysus; front of vine-wreath, chipped and plastered over; l. forearm, hand, and thyrsos; r. forearm, hand, and cup; most of upper vine-leaves; r. foot, lower part of l. leg down to the foot; most of Satyr and panther; lower part of trunk.

The statue represents the god erect, with his weight on the r. leg, and his head slightly turned to the r.; the r. arm was held out over the vinestock that is seen at his r., and the l. arm was held down. The restorations are probable, though uncertain. The presence of the Satyr and panther are proved by the goat’s hoof and the claws seen on the plinth. The face is empty of expression and is of the conventional Hellenistic type. The motive is found with several variants, in most of which Dionysus wears the νεβρίς, cf. Reinach, II. 117. The pupils are plastically rendered as in the second century A. D.

Ordinary decorative work of the Antonine period.

Found on the Esquiline in Viale Principessa Margherita, near the so-called temple of Minerva Medica.

Bull. Com. VII (1879), p. 240, no. 1;
Maviglia, Rom. Mitt. XXVIII (1913), p. 61, IX. e. 1.

Alin. 27169.

Credits:
© 1926. Photo, text: Henry Stuart Jones. A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: the sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori. Oxford, 1926. P. 131, cat. no. 8, Pl. 46.
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