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Hope Dionysus


The Hope Dionysus is a statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a Neo Attic or archaic pose.[1]

This statue, 8214 in. (2.1 m) high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th century English antiquities collector Thomas Hope (hence the name), and later belonged to a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, before being acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990.[2]



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