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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5141351, member: 99456&quot;]<img src="https://www.cummermuseum.org/sites/default/files/permanent-collection/CMA_permcoll_mosaic.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="2">(Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Public domain, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaic_with_mask_of_Silenus.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaic_with_mask_of_Silenus.jpg" rel="nofollow">via Wikimedia Commons</a>)</font></p><p>While I am intrigued by [USER=103869]@Scipio[/USER]&#039;s Liber (Roman tradition) v. Bacchus (Greek tradition) explanation, I just shake my head when I look at this coin, bewildering: an anthropomorphized <b>wild beast</b> {panther|leopard|cougar|dalmatian|ocelot} sticking a large gumby plant <b>thrysus</b> down the throat of a comedic silenus <b>mask</b> that is about to pop off the top of the <b>puteal</b> Scribonianus, a sacred well or spot struck by lightning where oaths were taken?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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