Relief

Plaque

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Object Number:	MS3459
Current Location:	Rome Gallery Currently On Display
Culture:	Roman
Provenience:	Italy Latium Lake Nemi
Locus:	Villa of Marius at Tivoli
Period:	Roman Period
Date Made:	1st c. CE
Early Date:	0
Late Date:	99
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Marble (Stone)
Technique:	Relief
Iconography:	Pan Bacchante
Height:	32.2 cm
Length:	44 cm
Depth:	10.5 cm
Credit Line:	Museum Purchase; subscription of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1897
Other Number:	0518 - Cast Number

Description

White marble painted. Two heads in 3/4 view facing each other. Pan to left, Bacchante to right, between them a staff bound diagonally with fillets, ends above. This is one of four marble plaques from Nemi with theater-like masks. The mask on the right represents a youthful, effeminate Dionysos.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

The Classical World: Rome ( Apr 1958 - 1975)	View Objects in Exhibition
Italian Gallery (28 Mar 1951 - 1958)	View Objects in Exhibition
Classical World - Roman World (15 Mar 2003)	View Objects in Exhibition
Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Collection] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 143, no. 73	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 122, fig. 110	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 56, no. 84	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 177-178, no. 48	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Reinach, Salomon. 1912. Répertoire de reliefs grecs et romains.. Paris. Vol. 2. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 208	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Furtwängler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905).. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 261, no. 37	View Objects related to this Actual Citation