Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo

A Hellenistic bronze of a satyr caught in mid-leap, recovered from the sea bed off southwestern Sicily: fishermen from Mazara del Vallo brought up the left leg in 1997 and the torso on the night of March 4, 1998, from roughly 500 meters of water. The dating is contested. Some scholars have argued for the fourth century BC, but the work is more securely placed in the Hellenistic period of the third and second centuries BC, and a Roman Atticizing phase in the early second century AD has also been proposed. Its resemblance to the work of Praxiteles has made an attribution to him, or to a faithful copy after him, a subject of discussion rather than a settled fact. The bronze is not an outdoor monument: it has been on permanent display since July 12, 2003 in the Museo del Satiro, housed in the former church of Sant'Egidio in Mazara del Vallo, on an anti-seismic base.

Material

Bronze

Where

Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy

Coordinates (approximate)

37.65194, 12.58833 — open the mapThe coordinate locates the Museo del Satiro in the former church of Sant'Egidio, Mazara del Vallo, where the bronze has been on permanent display since July 12, 2003 - not an outdoor position. It is an indoor museum object, so there is no spot a visitor can stand in front of; the page previously claimed an exact coordinate with no note (self-audit finding 5576).

Source

Wikidata Q2543426 — the facts above come from here. Something wrong? Correct it at the source and it flows back.