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Cameo with a Drunken Bacchant
(Roman Empire )
This cameo depicts a nude bacchante dancing with an animal skin over his left arm. He holds a thyrsos in his right hand, and a krater is knocked over at his feet.
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.
Geographies
Italy, Rome (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 3/16 × W: 7/8 × D: 3/16 in. (3 × 2.2 × 0.5 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1942
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.1267