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ECL-Bn.14:35-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.14:35-2013

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Identification

Title

Maenads and Satyrs dancing

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Bn 14. 33 and 35 are catalogued together as apparently being two scenes from the same relief.
See also Bn. 15. 100

Description

Content (description)

Each sheet shows three dancing figures, on a pavement decorated with lozenges in panels but against a blank background.
33. Two maenads with billowing drapes dance to right, the one on right holding a tympanum. Between them a nude satyr skips to right playing double pipes.
35. On left a nude boy plays Pan pipes. In the centre a maenad holds a tympanum and a ring, from which hang four balls. On right a nude satyr plays a great curved horn, which has twin mouths. All the figures dance to right.
Inscribed on 35 on right as if on a side wall: 1518/ A.V
In the bottom corner of each sheet has been added a cypher which resembles a rectangle with a circle imposed on top.

Content (object)

relief

Dimensions

height (actual size): 175mm
width (actual size): 254mm

Inscription

written in ink lower left: 2

Materials & techniques note

copper engraving on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Engraver)

Date

1518

History and association

Object history note


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