Attic Tondo - Red Figure
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Described as a satyr pursuing a maenad, this is probably Silenus (or one of the sileni) pursuing one of the nymphs of Nysa.
Satyr pursues a maenad, tondo of a red-figure Attic cup, ca. 510 BC–500 B.C.
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