Marble table support with a Dionysiac motif pan

Marble table support with a Dionysiac motif pan

Marble table support with a Dionysiac motif, around AD 170-180, was the single support for a table top. The pillar-support is adorned by a group of Dionysos, Pan and a Satyr. The nude Dionysos holds a rhyton (ritual vase). Next to him the goat-footed god Pan holds a lagobolon (stick to throw at hares). In front of them is a small cylindrical basket, from which a snake is emerging. A young Satyr climbs up the vine and cuts grapes with the sickle in his right hand. From the branch hangs a lagobolon, Pan’s syrinx (pipes) and a goatskin. The exposed parts of the bodies are very well polished.

in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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