The gate of the year

Black-figure lekythos of Attic manufacture, dating to 490-480 B.C., now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. The scene shows a group of Sileni, dancing around a representation of the god Dionysus in the shape of a phallus. On the background a vine plant with grapes, suggesting the relationship of Dionysus with vegetation and viticulture.

[Source: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Zürich, Artemis Verlag, vol. III/2, 1986, p. 312]




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Black-figure lekythos of Attic manufacture, dating to 490-480 B.C., now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. The scene shows a group of Sileni, dancing around a representation of the god Dionysus in the shape of a phallus. On the background a vine plant with grapes, suggesting the relationship of Dionysus with vegetation and viticulture. [Source: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Zürich, Artemis Verlag, vol. III/2, 1986, p. 312]