Silver goblet with scenes from the myth of the triumph of Dionysus, which belongs to the luxurious examples of Roman toreutics. There are two scenes on its embossed cover. In one, Dionysus sits on the back of a sea panther and sails the waves of the sea, holding a thyrsus (a stick covered with ivy leaves topped with a cone) and a kantharos (a vessel for serving wine) in his hands. On the other, Ariadne or Maenad is represented lying on a sea panther, with cyst and thyrsus in her hands. Both scenes feature Eros playing the flute or cymbal. The cup also bears the inscription of its owner, Lucilius Flavius Valens, the commander of a Roman military unit.

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