A Collection of Images: Part 8

Another day, another set of images.

Below: Dionysus, accompanied by two ithyphallic silent, is received by a royal woman, on a neck amphora. Orvieto, Museo Etrusco Faina

Below: Arrival of Dionysos on shipboard, accompanied by silent and women, on an Attic amphora. Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese.

Below: Variation of the 'arrival of Dionysos on shipboard' theme, on an Attic amphora. Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese.

Below: Dionysos on shipboard, on a cup from Vulei painted by Exekias. Munich. Below that 52A. Dionysos with a rhyton on board a ship with a mule's head prow, on the inside of a black-figure Attic cup. Berlin Staatliche Museen.

Below: 52B. Maenads riding on mules surrounding Dionysos, on the outside of the same cup.

Below 53. Maenads arriving at the banquet on ithyphallic mules. Transcript of a painting on an Attic lekythos.

Below: 54A. Dionysos with kantharos on an ithyphallic mule, on an Attic amphora. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome. 54B. Ithyphallic mule dancing among drunken sileni. Fragment of an amphora, by the Amasis painter, that was found on Samos and later lost in the sack of the museum.