Silenus with goat and basket (actor?)

Classification

statuette

Culture

Magna Graecian

Dimensions

height: 16.2 cm

Date

3rd–2nd century B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

Silenos ; wreath ; ribbon ; chiton ; mantle ; actor?; goat ; basket ; bowl of fruit

Production place

Tarentum / Taras (Taranto)

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.461

ID

Hyp-3238

Condition

Part of the headdress broken off and missing, otherwise intact.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 94, no. F 42 (fig.); Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 89, fig. 64; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 101, fig. 65

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.