Oud-Grieks Stunning Intaglio Stone with a scene Furious Maenad or Bacchante Intaglio

Stunning Intaglio Stone , Ancient Greece 300-100 BC Intaglio Image of Meanad near a term of Pan holding a small figure playing the Aulos she is partly nude, kneeling and her billowing garments around her. Behind her is a diminutive figure of a satyr that holds a Thyrsos ( the staff o Dionysos - Bacchus) Extreem rare piece is high Quality . In Greek mythology, maenads (miːnædz)Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι (maínomai, "to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry") literally translates as 'raving ones'. Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae /ˈbækiː/, or Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/ in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox skin. On his travels Dionysus was accompanied by satyrs (demons) and 'Maenads' or 'Bacchae'; 'possessed women' who gave themselves to ecstasy. Weight : 8.27 Gram 23.5 x 20.1 mm High Qualty. Source : John Boardman see image for own impression Own private collection inherited from Grandfather, who built the collection in the 1960's " No shipping to the USA. To ancient Greeks,... lees verder bij Catawiki