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Monumentum

Dionysus group marble of London

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.
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The New Mithraeum
30 Apr 2010
Updated on May 2026
'Small marble group which shows the god Dionysus reaching up to a vine; on the left is Silenus on a donkey, and, above, on the tree-trunk, the leg of a goat; to the right of Dionysus is a satyr; and, further right, a maenad carrying a wine-vessel, with a leopard at her feet' (Grimes in ILN, 636).

The base carries an inscription:

Hominibus bagisbitam.
Thou givest life to men

CIMRM II 823
Ann. ép. 1956, 193 No. 114.

CIMRM II 822
Hill, Pl. p. 64.

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