Showing posts with label Priapus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priapus. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Vicarello Goblet ... 25 BC to AD 25


 



































https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.371


This masterpiece of the Roman silversmith’s art is exquisitely worked in relief. 


The multifigure scene centers on a rustic shrine of the ithyphallic fertility god Priapus, son of Dionysos. 


He takes the form of a stylized boundary marker atop a column, where a woman seems to have brought him to life by touching him. 


To the left sits a table with votive offerings to the god. 


Flanking the shrine are a satyr and maenad, dancing ecstatically.