situla-fitting
- Museum number
- 1989,0130.1
- Description
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Cast bronze mask of horned Dionysos, originally one of a pair of supports for the handle of a situla. The handle ring, which originally projected from the top of the head, is now missing. The grapes and ivy berries are inlaid with copper, as are the lips; an iron band encircles the forehead; the whites of the eyes are inlaid with silver, and silver horns rear from the temples.
- Production date
- 200BC-100
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.40 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G2/wp3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Oct 14, London, BM, G2, 'Collecting the World'
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased in 1755 by Sir Paul Methuen (1672-1757) in whose family it remained until 1983.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1989,0130.1