#pinax

[tridentandtales]

Greek pinax (decorated plaque) showing a funerary scene. The holes at the top indicate, that the plaque was hung in sanctuaries (on walls, trees, or even on the cult image of the deity).

ca. 500 - 450 BCE

Walters Art Museum 48.225

[halybs]

p4s prog :D

[philoursmars]

Il y a une dizaine de jours, je suis parti retrouver Christine à Narbonne.

Le Musée Narbo Via, dédié à la Narbo romaine (cette ville fut la première ville romaine hors d'Italie et un des 3 plus grands ports de l'Empire romain)

disque ornemental de pilier - recto, Jupiter Ammon et Junon - 1er s. av. J-C. - 1er s. ap. J-C.

idem, verso : silène et satyre

oscillum ornemental - recto, silène assis - 1er s. av. J-C. - 1er s. ap. J-C.

idem, verso : faune jouant de la flûte de Pan

pinax = tablette, avec masque de théâtre de Hercule - fin Ier s. ap. J-C.

les 2 derniers : mosaïque de la Maison aux Satyres, ceux-ci dévoilant une nymphe endormie - fin IIème s. ap. J-C.

[lionofchaeronea]

A potter's workshop. Side B of a Corinthian black-figure pinax by an unknown artist, ca. 575-550 BCE. Found at Penteskouphia; now in the Louvre.

[nysus-temple]

I know you've shared sources about his biological parents, but do we have anything saying that Persephone took care of Dionysus? Just curious

I do ! Not long stories nor myths, but i do have some random things staying "yeah they were together or whatever". So here you go, i've recently discovered something REALLY cool:

Orphic Hymn LIII: When talking about Dionysus - "[...] who, sleeping in the sacred mansion of Persephone, suspends for three years the sacred Bacchic festival". So apparently, he can be in the Underworld. He spends at least a year next to Persephone, following how his festivities work.

Then we have... Whatever the hell this is

Getting this with a little bit of good quality was a fucking pain, please appreciate my suffering.

Soooo apparently, this is in the National Museum of Magna Graecia ( i think that's how you write it in English, idk tbh )

It's a pinax depicting Persephone and Dionysus. Shock. I know. There are more Pinax coming from the same place stored in this museum, like this one of Persephone with Hades:

Both come from a sanctuary dedicated to Persephone, so THAT'S something. Hades is no surprise, but Dionysus? Yeah, i think we have now enough sources saying they're mother and son.

Oh, and this is the only pic with them together, so i'm all happy tears, FINALLY !! SOMETHING !!

[thecrankyprofessor]

Black-figure Pinax (plaque) showing mourners at a prothesis - the laying out of the corpse. Gela Painter, active 500-450. H: 3 9/16 x W: 6 5/8 in. (9 x 16.8 cm)

Walters Museum

The Walters says: Pinakes" (singular "pinax") are decorated plaques made usually of terracotta, but also of wood, ivory, stone, or metal, which were often dedicated as offerings in sanctuaries. The holes were used to hang them within the sanctuary on walls, trees, or even on the cult image of the deity. The terracotta examples were produced by the same pottery workshops that made vases. This black-figure example shows a "prothesis" scene, the lying-in-state of the deceased on a bed, surrounded by his family members, some of whom tear their hair in mourning.

[paganimagevault]

Persephone opens the chest containing Adonis pinax 490-450 BCE

"Because of his [the infant Adonis] beauty, Aphrodite secreted him away in a chest, keeping it from the Gods, and left him with Persephone. But when Persephone got a glimpse of Adonis, she refused to return him. When the matter was brought to Zeus for arbitration, he divided the year into three parts and decreed that Adonis would spend one third of the year by himself, one third with Persephone, and the rest with Aphrodite. But Adonis added his own portion to Aphrodite's."

-Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 184 - 185 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2019/11/persephone-pinax-490-450-bce.html

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Pinax of an Enthroned Goddess.

Date: ca. 490 B.C.

Period: Archaic

Culture: Western Greek

Medium: Terracotta