File:Bronze fountain ornament depicting a satyr with panther found in a garden of the Villa dei Papyri in Herculaneum in 1754 Roman 1st century BCE - 1st century CE 02.jpg
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English: Original bronze fountain ornament depicting a satyr with panther found in a garden of the Villa dei Papyri in Herculaneum in 1754. Roman 1st century BCE - 1st century CE. Photographed at the "Buried by Vesuvius" exhibit at the Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA. |
| Date | 1st century BCE - 1st century CE |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Mary Harrsch |
"These three Satyrs of bronze form the decoration of a fountain , the middle one astride on a distended goat's skin bottle , presses the two fore legs , his countenance is grotesque though serious , while on his mouth is a certain jovial expression of buffoonery , his forehead is encircled with ivy leaves and berries; his ears pointed , his beard long but thin , the hair of his body hangs in locks , that of his head is short and bristled , as that of old Satyrs , and is not naturally curled as that of Bacchus and Apollo represented in the statues of bronze and sometimes in those of marble, his feet are covered with leather shoes from whence escape locks of hair , a sort of scarf covers the loins and falls gracefully over the two arms . The statue and the skin bottle are placed on an octangular basis which is also of bronze . The two other Satyrs , nearly resembling , are seated on a rock . The first leans his left hand on a skin bottle , while with his right he snaps his fingers ; the second caresses a tiger , which places its paw on his breast , both of the Satyrs wear a crown of ivy and berries ; their thick beards descend in strait curls ; their breasts are wide and hairy ; their bodies naked excepting a cloak which descends , from the left shoulder covers the right leg , and falls gracefully over the left . The smile that animates their features is doubtless the effect of the joyful influence of inebriety . The water issued , from the mouth of the middle skin bottle , and by the attributive ornaments of the other two Satyrs . * Height of each 1 palm 2 inches ; they were found together with 8 others in the excavations of 1754 at Herculaneum." from - ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII : BEING A SELECTION OF ALL THE MOST INTERESTING ORNAMENTS AND RELICS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME ; FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS . TO WHICH IS ADDED , A SELECTION OF REMARKABLE PAINTINGS BY THE OLD MASTERS . COMPRISING THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS PRESERVED IN THE MUSEO BORBONICO , AT NAPLES .
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