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The right hand group illustrates
Bacchus's triumph over India with exotic figures - captives wearing a short tunic, mantle and barbarian German trousers and with braided hairstyles. One of them rides an elephant whose trunk and tusks were carved in very high relief and have not survived. The
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Hercules's drunkenness is associated with the cult of
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and a flute, with a stone cyst with a serpent slithering from it and with a bacchante next to him playing a tambourine; on the right side is a satyr approaching a
Bacchante before a garlanded altar with fruits and pine cones.
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triumphing over India as its subject suggests it came from a Roman workshop and possibly dates to the start of the 3rd century, from the reign of
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The sarcophagus's relief represents the mythological scene of
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in his lionskin, trying to approach a nymph who pushes her right hand against his shoulder. He appears to struggle but is supported by a
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Either side of Pan is a group of six figures. On the left hand side of the relief is
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foliage and drawn by two panthers (his favoured animals) in the foreground. He holds his
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standing behind him and holding a palm in her left hand. To
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The sarcophagus was discovered in 1824 on the Saint-Just hill in
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Recueil général des bas-reliefs de la Gaule romaine
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16:Art work in the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon
23:The Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus
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257:"Le sarcophage du triomphe de Bacchus"
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204:Anne-Catherine Le Mer, Claire Chomer,
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37:sarcophagus
331:Roman Lyon
305:Categories
182:bas relief
53:Elagabalus
186:lagobolon
145:Bacchante
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157:Hercules
117:acanthus
106:Hercules
356:Silenus
346:Ariadne
169:Silenus
153:corymbs
141:Ariadne
137:Victory
121:thyrsus
102:Bacchus
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133:nebris
129:chiton
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