Monumentum
Dionysus group marble of London
Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.
The New Mithraeum
30 Apr 2010
Updated on 29 Oct 2022
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'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.
The base carries an inscription:
Hominibus bagisbitam.