ECL-Bm.2:80-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.2:80-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Relief:bacchic revel
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
On left Pan prances to right holding a pedum and carrying aloft a rhyton which ends in the protome of a panther. An oscillum lies on the ground. A maenad with billowing drapery holds a tympanum and proceeds right. Next a nude satyr with a skin clasped round his neck holds a blazing torch to right but turns back to the maenad. A pedum and a thyrsus hang from the upper border between them. On right a maenad with billowing drapery and vine garland clashes his crotola and moves right. From the upper border hang pipes on left, an oscillum on right. Beneath the lower border on left. are the following letters: DSPFC.
Content (object)
relief
Dimensions
height (actual size): 488mm
width (actual size): 770mm
width (actual size): 770mm
Inscription
Villa Borghese. Camera del genio. Base di statua di genio
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Ciferri, Bernardino (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Montelatici (247-8)

