Bacchic grove with dancers, animals and fish

3rd-7th century CE
Early Byzantine Egypt

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	4 x 11 1/2 in. (10.16 x 29.21 cm)
Medium	Wool
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of the Marsden Hartley Estate, 1951.2.75.u
Accession Number	1951.2.75.u

For full citations see page for object accession number 1951.2.75.a. Comparable example of small-figure Bacchic grove is Woodfin (at Queens College), p. 8, fig. 3, also shown in multiple details in Maguire, as B.6 and B7, pp. 100-103, although with wav e rather than the twist border seen in the Bates examples. Woodfin dates the fragment as 4th to 7th century. Unusual consistency with t confirms that they were originally part of same object. - Rebecca Corrie, August 24, 2020