T50.1 SILENUS
| Museum Collection | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu |
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| Catalogue No. | Malibu 86.AE.399 |
| Beazley Archive No. | N/A |
| Ware | Sicilian Red Figure |
| Shape | Lekythos, Fragment |
| Painter | Attributed to the Lentini Group |
| Date | ca. 350 - 325 B.C. |
| Period | Late Classical / Early Hellenistic |
DESCRIPTION
Silenus (either the god or one of the Silens) sits on a large wineskin playing a double-flute. He is depicted as plump, hairy, little man with a balding pate and the ears and tail of an ass. A tympanum (a type of drum or tambourine) rests by his side.