Drunken Old Woman

[Image] Perhaps showing a participant in Ptolemaic festival of Adonis, Alexandria, Egypt (see J.J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age, 1986, p. 143; purpose of festival was to celebrate death and resurrection of Adonis, who was shared between Aphrodite and Persephone and often identified with Near Eastern fertility god Tammuz); according to an alternate theory, woman would be connected with Dionysiac cult (see William R. Biers, The Archaeology of Greece, 2nd ed., 1996, p. 303). Pliny the Elder, Natural History 36.32: As to Myron, the celebrated bronze caster (was Pliny here conflating the Early Classical with a Hellenistic Myron?), his statue at Smyrna (where a copy of the Hellenistic type also known from copies in Munich and Rome, the Capitoline Museum was found) of an intoxicated old woman ranks among the most famous works.