Pan
Pan
Pan
Pan
Pan

Image credit: Lady Lever Art Gallery

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Pan, the Greek god of wild nature, was part man and part goat. His legendary birthplace was Arcadia, a remote wooded area of southern Greece. The inscription on the sculpture means ‘Eat, play, drink. Pan, god of Arcadia’.

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Wirral

Title

Pan

Date

18th C

Medium

marble

Measurements

H 56 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

LL 147

Acquisition method

purchased by Lord Leverhulme from the collection of the 15th Duke of Norfolk in 1919

Work type

Bust

Inscription description

inscribed on bottom front of bust: EDE. LUDE. BIBE; inscribed around front top of plinth: PAN DEUS ARCADIAE

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