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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 910250, member: 5833&quot;]Dionysus himself.&nbsp; There are many with softer faces &amp; more rounded chest areas that are indeterminate; some see as the god, some see as one of his followers.&nbsp; With that strong jaw &amp; straighter front, yours does not seem ambiguous to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have shown this one before.&nbsp; I see it as a maenad/bacchante, but you could argue:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]200852[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The differentiation of Ariadne from a maenad is not always easy or clearcut.&nbsp; In my observation, what characterizes depictions that are generally agreed to be Ariadne is that she does not have the wild look: hair more under control; wreathed in ivy rather than draped in grape; no goat or panther skin; no thyrsus.&nbsp; She&#039;s the consort of a major divinity, not one of his besotted followers.&nbsp; The most certain ones are scenes of the <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/AA1DAC74-80FD-4EDA-85B2-2B9F4425B4F6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/AA1DAC74-80FD-4EDA-85B2-2B9F4425B4F6" rel="nofollow">Cretan princess abandoned on Naxos by Theseus</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to the panther skin, cutter of yours seems to have been influenced by those mink wraps with all the little tails attached like fringe at the ends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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