Terracotta head of Dionysos, Late Hellenistic or Late Republican, 1st century B.C., Greek or Roman, Terracotta, H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm), Terracottas, Dionysos, god of wine and the pleasures it can bring, was extremely popular during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The Greek kings who ruled the lands conquered by Alexander the Great took him as patron deity, and the Romans, impressed by the luxury and wealth of those kingdoms, filled their private villas with images of the god
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