Pan mit Dionysoskind

Identified by his goat’s legs and tail, Pan, the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, wears the nebris (skin of a deer) and carries the infant Dionysus on his arm, who had been left in his care. The fragments of hooves on the plinth allow us to reconstruct his pose. Pan is handing the child a grape – a motif known from imperial coins minted at Zakynthos (Greece). The panther, a traditional companion of the deity, sits on his right; the tree functioned as a support.