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Relief with Silvanus Holding Entrails in the Princeton University Art Museum, September 2012

Relief with Silvanus Holding Entrails in the Princeton University Art Museum, September 2012
Relief of Silvanus Holding the Entrails of a Sacrificial Victim
Roman, first half of the 2nd century AD
White marble

# Y1991-21

Silvanus was a forest deity and guardian of shepherds and hunters, as well as a protector of the household. In this fragmentary relief, he is shown wearing a sleeved undergarment, tunic, cloak, and skin boots as he stands before a tree and a rustic altar. In his right hand he holds a pruning hook (falx), his most common attribute. The objects in his left hand are the entrails of a sacrificial animal: windpipe, lungs, heart, and liver.

Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.

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