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Satyr and maenad
Sculpture
10 B.C., approximately
Roman copy after a Greek original
Dancer holding her head-scarf
Low relief, pentelic white marble (124 x 64 x 14.5 cm)
30 B.C., approximately
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One of three reliefs (from a tripod base) showing dancing Horai
Neo-attic art, after an original of the second half of the 4th century BC. Probaly one of the Hours or a Nymph, both daughters of Zeus. Found in Athens, in the Theater of Dionysos (in 1862), in the Eastern portion of the right Parodos.
One of the Nymphs or Charites dancing on a marble crater
Sculpture
35 B.C., approximately
Greece
Mould for a relief with dancing girl wearing a Kalathiskos
Relief in clay (48 x 26 x 5.5 cm)
90 B.C., approximately
Found on the island of Delos, in a workshop destoyed in 69 BC. The mould would be used for casting a bronze relief plaque, to be reverted to a marble “choregic” stele, perhaps an ex-voto after a victory in a dance contest.
Denarius of Apollonia bearing three Nymphs or Graces dancing in a circle around an altar
Relief in a silver coin (2 cm diam)
50 B.C., approximately
1st century BC. Head of Apollo on the obverse. The two end dancers hold torches. The dancers should be identified as devotees of god, Muses, Nymphs or Graces, well-known for their love of music and dance.
Young Satyr dances holding a thyrsos and probably a musical instrument
Relief in clay (8.6 cm height X 13 cm rim diam)
80 B.C., approximately
Early 1st century BC. Made by the Menemachos workshop in Ionia. Skyphos vase depicts the god Dionysos with a band of musicians.
Mould for a relief with dancing girl wearing a Kalathiskos
Relief in clay (48 x 26 x 5.5 cm)
90 B.C., approximately
Found on the island of Delos, in a workshop destoyed in 69 BC. The mould would be used for casting a bronze relief plaque, to be reverted to a marble “choregic” stele, perhaps an ex-voto after a victory in a dance contest.
Bacchic dancer
Relief
100 B.C., approximately
Greece
Three wine-servers
Statuette in bronze
100 B.C., approximately
Italy
Nymphs dancing, Apollo, Hermes and Pan
Relief in marble (39 cm height)
100 B.C., approximately
Greece
Three Graces (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thaleia) 3 Nymphs (Ismini, Kykais, Eranno) and Tilos Island dancing
Relief in Marvel
100 B.C., approximately
Greece, Dodecanese Islands, Tilos.
Tanagra dancer
Statuette in terracotta
100 B.C., approximately
Greece.
Tanagra dancer
Statuette in terracotta
100 B.C., approximately
Greece.
Dancer
Relief
100 B.C., approximately
Greco-Roman art. Detail of a Dionysiac sarcophagus
Figurine of a dancing girl in Phrygian costume, leaning over to her left, arms above her head
Sculpture in clay and terracotta (15 cm height)
100 B.C., approximately
Found at Rheneia, 1988, in a child’s grave. The girl wears trousers, a short tunic with long narrow sleeves and a Phrygian cap. Probably a dancer-acrobat with garments reminding of those of the Amazons.
Greece
Dancer with crotala and intoxicated man
Relief (171 cm total height)
100 B.C., approximately
Greece
Pentelic crater, called the Borghese krater, found in Rome. Illustration of a dionysian procession
Dancing faun (Fauno danzante)
bronze, statuette
20 B.C., approx.
Male dancer
Sculpture, statuette, bronze
50 B.C., approx.
Ancient Greece
Marble relief with a dancing maenad. Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos
Sculpture, relief, pentelic marble
height 143 cm
27 B.C., approx.
The maenad, wearing an ivy wreath and carrying a thyrsos (fennel stalk) bedecked with ivy leaves and berries, moves forward, trancelike, her drapery swirling about her. She was copied from a famous relief of dancing maenads dated to the late fifth century B.C., when Euripides portrayed the manic devotées of Dionysos in his play the Bacchae.
Ancient Greece