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Satyr Mask
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This satyr head, with a full moustache and beard, has a deeply furrowed brow, flaring and bulbous nostrils and thick rims around his eyes. The high-arching eyebrows spring from the bridge of the nose. The lips are full and the hair falls in curls down either side of the face. A pointed equine ear is preserved on the satyr's left side. Also surviving are two rosettes or berry clusters and a leaf fragment that probably formed part of the Dionysiac crown or "taenia."
The mask is made of pale, cream-colored clay, and is heavily weathered and abraded. A large part of the right side of the head is missing. Traces of white slip on both front and concave back side.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
December 1963 purchase from Munzen und Medaillen AG Basel Switzerland.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund
Title: Satyr Mask
Description:
This satyr head, with a full moustache and beard, has a deeply furrowed brow, flaring and bulbous nostrils and thick rims around his eyes.
The high-arching eyebrows spring from the bridge of the nose.
The lips are full and the hair falls in curls down either side of the face.
A pointed equine ear is preserved on the satyr's left side.
Also surviving are two rosettes or berry clusters and a leaf fragment that probably formed part of the Dionysiac crown or "taenia.
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The mask is made of pale, cream-colored clay, and is heavily weathered and abraded.
A large part of the right side of the head is missing.
Traces of white slip on both front and concave back side.
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