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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 405227, member: 5833&quot;]Or Pan:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.13moons.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/1000x/7af70025d9bf4cb937e540a64a4341a7/p/a/panstatue3_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Satyrs, including the granddaddy of them all, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenus" rel="nofollow">Silenus</a>, are frequently depicted without horns, sometimes without any goat features at all, just pointed ears like Mr. Spock.&nbsp; See:</p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/566C20FA-299A-4C11-83F0-829C0A89B767" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/566C20FA-299A-4C11-83F0-829C0A89B767" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/566C20FA-299A-4C11-83F0-829C0A89B767</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; and</p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/36EB4799-A33C-481A-9DDE-4CC5E790836A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/36EB4799-A33C-481A-9DDE-4CC5E790836A" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/36EB4799-A33C-481A-9DDE-4CC5E790836A</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The subject of satyrs/fauns/silenoi is a vexed one.&nbsp; The description of the cup shown in post #28 says it is a faun holding up the cup.&nbsp; Here are some members of the revel rout, not all of them goat-footed:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]141200[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the &#039;Green Man&#039; mask that would make more sense as Bacchus or one of his companions.&nbsp; Not that the composition of this piece makes a lot of sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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