Silenos riding a mule

Classification

statuette

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 16 cm; length: 12 cm

Date

ca. 480 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Iconography

Silenos ; mule

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.38

Hyp-3644

Condition

Ears, arms and feet of Silenos, lower part of legs, end of phallus of mule broken off, missing. Broken at neck, right knee and waist of Silenus and neck of mule; mended.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 38, no. 59, fig.; Oroszlán, in MagyMűv 6 (1930), 90–91, fig.; Oroszlán 1934, 10–14, fig. 55–57; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1955, pl. VIII, fig. 3; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1957, pl. 21, fig. 3; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1961, pl. VII, fig. 1; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1965, pl. VII, fig. 2; Szilágyi–Szabó 1974, 33, fig. 20; Bökönyi 1974, 260, fig. 102; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 45, fig. 24; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 51, fig. 24

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.