Salpinktes on dais

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Description: Paquette describes this scene as two silenes running before a statue of Dionysos while a third, perched on a dais, blows a cup-belled salpinx proclaiming the victory of Dionysus. The scene may have mirrored that witnessed by those present at the start of a race in the agon/games.

Citations:

Paquette 1984

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