The bronze statue portrays a drunken elderly Satyr, lying on a rock covered with a lionskin. It adorned the swimming pool in the middle of the peristilium (four-sided colonnade with a central garden) of the Villa of the Papyri, a luxury villa on the outskirts of Herculaneum where it was found in 1754. It is on display in the Naples National Archaeological Museum (Italy).
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