Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Bacchus / Myths / Birth / From Semele
Bacchus / Myths / Birth / From Jupiter
Bacchus / Myths / Infancy / Mercury entrusting Bacchus to the nymphs of Mount Nysa
Bacchus / Myths / Expedition to India / Triumph / With elephants
Eileithyia
Pan / With other figures / Bacchus
Silenus / With other figures / Infant Bacchus

Further details

[Lid; left to right]: Semele on her deathbed, behind her the three Eileithyiai holding Dionysus, Hermes stands to the right of the deathbed; Hermes concealed by one birth goddess who is assisting Zeus; Mercury rushing to the right with the babe; Nymphs of Nysa & Bacchus, Silenus between Pan & nymphs

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

170 (circa) - 180

Location

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum (inv. 23.31)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Zanker and Björn C. Ewald, Living with Myths: The Imagery of Roman Sarcophagi, Oxford 2012, pp. 239-333.

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Web resources

Walters Art Gallery

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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