F27.1 SEILENOS NURSING DIONYSOS

Museum Collection: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Catalogue Number: TBA
Type: Fresco, Imperial Roman
Context: Pompeii
Date: --
Period: Imperial Roman

SUMMARY

The old god Seilenos plays with the infant Dionysos. Beside him sits a Nysias Nymph holding a bunch of grapes out for the child. The goat-legged Pan, and Hermes with winged cap, sandals and lyre, sit to one side.

ARTICLESSeilenos, Dionysos, Nysiades, Pan, Hermes