Cleveland Museum of Art
The Vicarello Goblet
- Date
- 25 BCE–25 CE
- Medium
- silver
- Culture
- Italy, Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), Roman, Augustan period
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This masterpiece of the Roman silversmith’s art is exquisitely worked in relief. The multifigure scene centers on a rustic shrine of the ithyphallic fertility god Priapus, son of Dionysos. He takes the form of a stylized boundary marker atop a column, where a woman seems to have brought him to life by touching him. To the left sits a table with votive offerings to the god. Flanking the shrine are a satyr and maenad, dancing ecstatically. This silver cup was found north of Rome at Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), probably in 1862.
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