ECL-Bn.9:39-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.9:39-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Bacchic procession
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Palazzo Albani
Description
Content (description)
The whole relief of a Bacchic wine vat sarcophagus is shown, as if opened out. At left and right are lion heads, their mouths open to show the bottom teeth and the tongue. In the centre nude Dionysus, with wreath and thyrsos, rides to right on the back of a prancing tiger. A satyr follows holding its tail, and behind him a satyr plays pipes and holds a thyrsos. The tiger is preceded by a leaping Pan, who holds a pedum. In the background there are four subsidiary figures. On the ground beneath the scene there are a snake, an infant Pan, a tiger, a putto playing a pipe and a recumbant goat. On far left beyond the lion head, a satyr dances; he holds a putto on one arm, a large bearded mask on the other. Beneath the lion-head two satyrs remove a stone from Pan's hoof. At far right a half-draped female turns her back to the viewer. Beneath the lion-head Pan has intercourse with a goat turned on its back.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 374mm
width (actual size): 505mm
width (actual size): 505mm
Inscription
in aed D. Alexandri Albani
Materials & techniques note
pen and brown ink on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
