Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 212
paintings, etc., in Pompeii. Sacrifices and religious cere-monies are not uncommon; and especially bacchanalianprocessions, and dances of bacchantes and satyrs—anotherproof that this ware was used for the festive board. Thespirited manner in which figure subjects are often treated,will be seen by… … represents a bacchanalian scene, in which Silenus figuresamong satyrs and fauns. A faun is drinking from ahorn supplied from a wine skin which he holds in his lefthand, while Silenus attempts to snatch it from his hands.Genii, one of whom appears with wings on another frag-ment of the same vessel,…
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