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Date : approx. between the Ist century and 2
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1921)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Vitrine : V02
Area related
Greece
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Adaptation of a Greek relief of about 425-400 B.C. attributed to Kallimachos.
In myth and art the wine god, Dionysos, is accompanied by dancing women known as maenads The most famous description of them comes The Bacchae, a play by Euripides, produced in Athens in the late fifth century B.C. The most famous representations are from a relief dancing maenads carved at the same time. This small relief is a reduced copy dating from the Roman period.
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