Bacchic Horn

Specimen Detail | SD209

Find Spot: Fayum, Egypt

Date of Find: Not known

Dating of Item: lst century CE Based on Not known

Current Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics: Not known

Description: "Red earthenware bugle with low relief representing a young Bacchus, Silenus and bunches of grapes. Circular embouchure, oval bell opening: conoidal bore, very rough inside. Length 195mm, width 60mm, embouchure 1 17m , Bell orifice length 40mm"

Related Material: None

Citations: Bessaraboff, 1941, 156, no. 154