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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Dancing Bacchus; muscular nude male figure standing frontally, looking upward, right arm outstretched with hand open, left hand holding a tympanon; possibly wearing a wreath; animal skin (leopard[?]) hanging behind him from shoulder, paw visible to left of figure, a feline head to right. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a var. Filling-hole in lower right. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring defined by two grooves.

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