Cleveland Museum of Art

Dancing Satyr Group

Date: 500–475 BCE
Medium: painted terracotta
Culture: Greece, Boeotia
Department: Greek and Roman Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 156754

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

Part man and part beast, satyrs were mythical woodland creatures. In art, they were depicted with the ears and tail of a goat or horse, sometimes with hooves, and in a high state of sexual arousal. Satyrs often accompanied Dionysus, the god of wine, in his drinking bouts and other escapades. These three probably once decorated the rim of a large punch-bowl-shaped vessel for serving wine. Satyrs, or lustful, drunken woodland gods, are the biggest partiers in ancient Greek mythology.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: Norbert Schimmel, NY | 1992: Sotheby's, NY sale 12/16/92, no. 53 | Norbert Schimmel, NY; (Sotheby's, NY sale 12/16/92, no. 53)