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Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

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Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

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Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing his conquest of India as described by the fifth-century Egyptian poet Nonnos of Panopolis: "Lord Bacchus [Dionysos] spoke…Indian slaying servants of invincible Dionysos! Bind them all fast unresisting, the sons of the Indians, take them all prisoners in bloodless conflict."
Made in possibly Syria

Romei means "man from Rome", identifying people who once lived in Rome and now living elsewhere - Eastern Roman Empire with its capital in Constantinople..

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0300 - 1300
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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