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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

TNMM 195 ↔ CIMRM 822 & 823

'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.

Main inscription

Hominibus bagis bitam.
Thou givest lift to men.

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