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Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India
Byzantine, said to have been found in Rome
Made mid-500s, possibly in Syria

Accession # 17.190.56

Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing the conquest of India as described by the fifth century Egyptian poet Nonnos of Panopolis: "Lord Bacchus [Dionysos] spoke... Indian slaying servants of invincible Dionysos! Bind them all fast unresisting, the sons of the Indians, take them all prisoners in bloodless conflict."

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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