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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7794738, member: 75143&quot;]Marsyas is a satyr in Greek mythology who was one of the more popular statuary types in the realm. There were a variety of poses that he shows up as, but the most common one shows him strung up and flayed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1338148[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The statues tend to be rather fragmentary, and modern principles tend to deny full restorations of the full figure.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1338147[/ATTACH]</p><p>However, sometimes they are found largely intact, such as this one, <i>in situ:</i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1338150[/ATTACH] </i> </p><p><br /></p><p>Another popular pose is a statuary group of Athena and Marsyas. Athena was playing the pan flute, but was evidently displeased at the expression her face made while playing. Frustrated, she flung the pipes to the ground, much to the delight of Marsyas who was apparently really stoked at the free instrument.</p><p><br /></p><p>This group was originally bronze, but exists in a variety of fragmentary marble copies:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1338151[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This group is so popular that there are a great deal of modern bronze copies all over the world, such as below:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1338152[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Marsyas doesn&#039;t show up <i>too</i> much on coins, and those are often out of my price range. I managed to pick up this small AE16 from Iconium, modern Konya, Turkey.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1338153[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This statuary type with Marysas carrying the wine skin is very popular and shows up in the exact same pose since the Republican era, indicating that statues of this type survived all across the empire for hundreds of years. Oddly enough, I cannot find a single extant example of this statue in any material.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your Marsyases![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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