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T50.2 SILENUS

Silenus | Paestan red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection -
Catalogue No. -
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Paestan Red Figure
Shape Oinochoe
Painter -
Date C4th B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

An old Silen sits on a rock holding a thyrsus (pine-cone tipped staff) in one hand and a string of beads(?) in the other. He is depicted as a plump, hairy old man with a balding pate and the ears of an ass.

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Silenus