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Bronze mask of horned Dionysus 200-300 BC. The mask once formed the handle attachment of a situla or wine-bucket. The ring mount supporting the handle is missing This type of handle attachment, portraying Dionysus, seems to have originated in Ptolemaic Egypt where the god was equated with Egyptian Osiris.

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Copyright: Irish Photo Archive
Image Size: 3300x5528 / 3.3MB; Ancient Greece sculpture
Contained in galleries: Recently uploaded historical photos 4

Bronze mask of horned Dionysus 200-300 BC. The mask once formed the handle attachment of a situla or wine-bucket. The ring mount supporting the handle is missing This type of handle attachment, portraying Dionysus, seems to have originated in Ptolemaic Egypt where the god was equated with Egyptian Osiris.