
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Relief .showing a Satyr before a herm of a horned and goat eared bearded god either Silenus or Pan. The satyr has no beard and wears an animal skin, tied around his neck and hanging down his back, He holds a pedum (shepherd's crook) in his left hand. In his right hand he holds an offering to the herm, possibly a basket of honeycomb. He stands in front of a furniture piece with a voluted lid. Above the two figures there is a fruit and berries garland hanging from two bucrania (bull skulls).
Specifications
- Accession number
- 59.148.309
- Collection type
- Art
- Culture
- Roman Imperial
- Date made
- 1st Century AD - 2nd Century AD
- Collector
- Henry Blundell
- Materials
- Marble
- Measurements
- Overall: 1180 mm x 660 mm x 200 mm x 200 kg
- Note
- Credit line
- Gift of Col. Joseph W Weld, 1959
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Loan out: ON LOAN, Shanghai Youxiang Art
- Publications
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