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Mildenhall Great Dish

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This 4th-c. silver dish from Mildenhall, England centers on Oceanus, the sea-god with weeded beard and dolphin-crest hair. Around him, Nereids (sea nymphs) ride Tritons (mermen) and sea-stags. The outer frieze honors Bacchus, god of wine, with grapes and a thyrsus (ivy-staff). Hercules, Pan, the goat-god of the wild, and Maenads, Bacchus’ frenzied female followers, complete this layered celebration of mythic revelry.
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