Plaque with Dionysos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Dionysos

Date: 4th–6th century

Geography: Made in, Egypt

Culture: Byzantine

Medium: Bone

Dimensions: Overall: 5 3/8 x 2 1/16 x 9/16 in. (13.6 x 5.3 x 1.5 cm)

Classification: Ivories-Bone

Credit Line: Gift of Robert L. Hermanos and Miriam H. Knapp, in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos, 1993

Accession Number: 1993.516.1

Description:

The figure stands in the relaxed pose made popular by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles in the fourth century B.C.

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