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"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Joyous celebrations, often in the company of the wine god Dionysos, are frequently found on second-century CE sarcophagi. At the left of this fragmentary panel, a cult statue of Dionysos is being set up by satyrs and maenads. In the center, seated satyrs receive offerings from two women. The scene at the right develops around a baby Dionysos with four attendants. To the right of this group stands the half-goat, half-anthropomorphic god Pan; his fragmentary figure indicates that a fourth scene, now lost, was originally present. The sarcophagus’s left-end panel, depicting Silenos and a maenad, survives in Arezzo, Italy. The right-end panel, with nymphs and the infant Dionysos, is in Woburn Abbey, England. This relief was known as early as the fifteenth century, when a vignette inspired Donatello’s bronze pulpit relief in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence.","remarks":"MED2_22_WLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":140,"sortnumber":"1949  110y","published_date":"2026-04-03 02:00:16.154864","objectid":23705,"dimensions":"38.5 x 150.5 x 5.5 cm (15 3/16 x 59 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)\r\nfloor: d. 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)","on_view":true}