Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

Byzantine

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301

Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing his conquest of India as described by the fifth-century Egyptian poet Nonnos of Panopolis: "Lord Bacchus [Dionysos] spoke…Indian slaying servants of invincible Dionysos! Bind them all fast unresisting, the sons of the Indians, take them all prisoners in bloodless conflict."

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, Elephant ivory, Byzantine

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Side 1 - Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing his conquest of India

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, Elephant ivory, Byzantine
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, Elephant ivory, Byzantine
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, Elephant ivory, Byzantine
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, Elephant ivory, Byzantine

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