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Z12.20 INFANT DIONYSUS RIDING TIGER

Infant Dionysus & Tiger | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection El Djem Archaeological Museum, El Djem
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Thysdrus
Date -
Period Imperial Roman

DESCRIPTION

The infant god Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) rides on the back of a tiger. He is crowned with a wreath, wears a leopard-skin cloak and holds a small thyrsus (pine-cone tipped staff).

ARTICLES

Dionysus