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Bacchic Dance - Item #1426 Inches High x 27 Inches Wide x 3 Inches Deep This piece is a fragment of the relief identified only as a maenad and two satyrs in a Bacchic procession. Today, the two known originals are in the collections of the British Museum and the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The other section of the relief is Item #15, Satyr with Panther. The relief was made in the Neo Attic style in which Greek artists under Roman rule referenced earlier,

1911 Catalog ID # - 11029

she would have been no more than fifteen years old when he died nor was she betrothed or recently wed

The head is original while the bust was added at some point later to reproductions

It is widely accepted that the sculpture may represent the myth of Apollo’s defeat of the serpent

21 Inches High

also called Venus

Origin: Temple of Hera

Francisco de Zurbarán's painting of the same name from 1640 possibly inspired this sculpture

Colour in Sculpture: A Survey from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present

Our reduction cast is a fragment of the original as it is missing its arms and the rest of its legs

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Origin: The Crater of Salpion