MM 1970:010
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pilgrim bottle
- Object description
- Bevelled rim; moulded mouth; short, cylindrical neck; lentoid body; two flat loop handles on each side of neck. Reddish to brown clay; red glaze. Grooves in handle top; ridge encircling body; on both sides relief decoration within impressed circular field. A: (from left to right) Pan playing a double pipe; intoxicated Silenos holding a thyrsos staff, led by a maenad with bare upper body, holding a thyrsos staff. B: seated Dionysos, wearing an ivy wreath, holding a staff; reclining in front of him Ariadne, seen from behind; to the left of Dionysos a smaller, bearded male figure holding up a small object to Ariadne.
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