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TITLE OF WORK: Marble relief with a dancing maenad. Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos

TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, pentelic marble

DATE: -27

DATE DETAILS: BC approx.

DIMENSIONS: height 143 cm

COMMENTS: The maenad, wearing an ivy wreath and carrying a thyrsos (fennel stalk) bedecked with ivy leaves and berries, moves forward, trancelike, her drapery swirling about her. She was copied from a famous re

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,

DANCE FORM: solo

KEYWORDS: maenad, thyrsus