lionofchaeronea:A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a
lionofchaeronea:A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a snake. Attic red-figure lekythos (oil flask), attributed to the painter Hermonax; ca. 460 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- source link