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.