Bowl with Dancing Satyrs and Maenads (Terra Sigillata)

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Bowl with Dancing Satyrs and Maenads (Terra Sigillata)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date30 BCE-50 CE

DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in.; W: 5 in.; D: 5 in.; Diam (rim): 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm)

MediumMolded earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by the Latin students of Donnell Junior High School, Findlay; and with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1992.1

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

Label TextFollowers of Bacchus, god of the grape harvest, wine, and the ritualistic ecstasy that wine can induce, circle the exterior of this bowl in a band of low relief decoration. The Bacchic revelers include Pan (the half-goat god of nature), dancing satyrs (pointy-earred men with long tails), satyrs riding griffins, as well as male and female partiers. Bowls made by pressing earthenware into molds became popular tableware in Roman households of the first centuries of the Empire. This hemispherical bowl is an inexpensive version of the luxurious silver bowl nearby.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Annual Report, July 1, 1991 - June 30, 1992, p. 21, repr.Comparative ReferencesSee also Walters, H.B. Catalogue of Roman Pottery in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1908.

cf. Charlestown, R.J., Roman Pottery, London, n.d., pp. 10-11.

cf. Brown, A.C., Catalogue of Italian Terra-sigillata in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1968, pp. xviii-xix.