KE 1071 (Terracotta Figurine of Silenus with Baby Dionysos) [permalink] [next]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
Subject number
S 42
Typological identification
Terracotta Figurine
Description
Actor as Silenus. Draped, potbellied male figure holding infant in right arm: Silenus with the baby Dionysus. Solid cast; unfinished back.
Fabric, firing, surface
Fine buff clay. Corinthian coroplastic fabric.
Preservation comment
One fragment preserves most of body by feet broken away and missing attached here. Moderate, extensive abrasion; slight to moderate, somewhat extensive patches of encrustation.
Preserved height
0.074
Width
0.038
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Dionysos/Bacchus (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Silenos (Visual Motif)
File
Photograph
Linked to

KE 1070 (Terracotta Figurine of Aphrodite Pudica)