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| Iconography | |
| GODS & MYTHS | |
| Bacchus | |
| → Attributes → Lion | |
| Vulcan | |
| → Myths → Return to Olympus |
| Further details | |
| Athenian black-figure neck-amphora. Drawing ad usum delphini (as regards the mule). Dionysus/Bacchus with a lion, which could refer to one of his ephithets, Διόνυσος Βρόμιος, the Uproaring God, which he shared with a lion; the adjective also refers to thunder that was uproaring at his birth. | |
| ARTIST/CREATOR | |
| Ancient Greek | |
| DATE | |
| 2nd half 6th century BC | |
| LOCATION | |
| London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1836.0224.48) |
| Notes on photograph | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION | |
| H. B. Walters, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, London 1893, B264 |
| Find out more | |
| RELATIONS | |
| British Museum | |
| Beazley Archive |
| Acknowledgements | Record created with the generous support of the Dean's Development Fund of the School of Advanced Study, University of London |
| Contact | For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk |