A rat wearing a crown and a cape made of leaves stand silhouetted in front of a circular light resembling the sun. He holds a thyrsus in one hand, a staff that looks like a tree branch topped with a pinecone, with his tail wrapped around it. Below him, wreathed in shadow, his tail is tied in a knot with many other rats, who appear off to the side as glowing eyes.

Introducing the king of rat kingdom... the Rat King! (King of Rats)

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Pan, against a black background, holds a thyrsus in his left arm horizontally over his head. A red jewel dangles from the pointed end of the thyrsus. Pan himself looks fun, not dangerous, despite his goat horn and ears. He's wearing a yellow tunic and may be holding a wine jug in his other hand. Atop his head is the golden flowerpot-shaped crown we usually associate with the syncretic Roman/Egyptian god Serapis, husband to the Roman version of Isis.

#FrescoFriday gives us this #Pan holding a #thyrsus, a #Dionysiac symbol, in this #fresco fragment from the Evan Gorga collection now in #PalazzoAltemps. This is of possibly #Neronian date and is all about fun and revels, rather Saturnalian, with Pan wearing the crown of #Serapis.

🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. This dancing #satyr thrillingly twirls his throbbing #thyrsus at the Naples Italy Archaeological Museum #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet).🪷

🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. This dancing #satyr thrillingly twirls his throbbing #thyrsus at Naples National Archaeological Museum's #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet). 🪷

Did you know the pinecone tip Thyrsus *may* not be historically correct?
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