Worsley, Richard [Sammler] [Editor]: Museum Worsleyanum: or, a collection of antique basso-relievos, bustos, statues, and gems ; with views of places in the Levant ; taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV. VI. and VII. (Band 1) (London, 1824)

THE MANTUAN GEM.

In this beautiful cameo, an androgynous figure is represented sleeping. On one side
is Bacchus bearing a torch, and extending it towards the sleeping figure : he leans on
one of those figures commonly called Sileni, and is accompanied by a faun and a satyr.3
This gem, equally to be admired for the beauty, character, and superior style of work-
manship, came originally out of the celebrated Collection of the Dukes of Mantua. In
Tassie's Gems, who appears to have mistaken the subject, it is described as Bacchus
finding Ariadne at Naxos, where she had been deserted by Theseus.

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