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Mirror-lid Applique of Dionysos, Eros, and a Kitharist

Date

about 100 B.C.

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Implements

Institution

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This applique from the lid of an Etruscan mirror is decorated with a figure of Dionysos (located in the center of the tondo) leaning on Eros to his left, who looks up toward the divinity. Dionysos holds a thyrsos in his left hand and is nude except for a chlamys, which is draped over his left shoulder. To the god's right stands a female playing the kithara (perhaps a Muse).

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