Amphora with Bacchic Scenes

Description This amphora has lost one of its handles. The scenes on the amphora include Bacchus and his consort, Ariadne, with their followers among temples, hills, and trees. A later inscription appears on the neck, where a missing handle was originally attached. The inscription reads, A V.S.D./MER (votum solvit deo mercurio), "dedication to Mercury."

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Examination	cleaned; examined for loan; stabilized

Exhibitions

• Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.
• Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. 2014-2015.

Provenance Found at Entrains, near Dijon, 1921; Mme. Mancel, Paris?, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P3099]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] On neck: A V.S.D./MER; [Translation] On neck: dedication to Mercury

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters