Maenad Rending Her Prey

Sculpture

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Museum of Antiquities - University of Saskatchewan

Close-up: 2015-00-00
Close-up

2015-00-00

Name/Title

Maenad Rending Her Prey

Entry/Object ID

77H0120

Description

Relief depicting a frenzied maenad, draped, grasping a knife over her head in her right hand, swinging severed hind quarters of a roe in the left. She has a delicate, slim body, apparent under the thin veil which leaves one breast and arm bare.

Type of Sculpture

Relief

Artwork Details

Medium

Resin

Context

She is engaged in a ferocious action, symbolizing the restrained rational Apollonian together with its antithesis: the intemperate irrational Dionysian.

Made/Created

Date made

100 BCE - 99 CE

Time Period

Hellenistic

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Greek - Hellenistic

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

42.5 cm

Width

22.5 cm

Depth

3.7 cm

Research Notes

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Boardman, John. Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Becatti, Giovanni. Art of Ancient Greece and Rome. NY: Prentice Hall, 1967. Public: No

Research Type

Researcher

Notes

Kerber, Jenny L.M. The Appeal of the Mystery Religions of Demeter and Dionysus in Ancient Greece. 1995. Public: No