Fragment with an Armed Dancer 4th–5th century Later Greek writers, such as Nonnos of Panopolis, who flourished in Egypt in the fifth century AD, linked the god Dionysos with Pyrrhic dancers, like the one seen here. In a Pyrrhic dance, a dance of war or victory, armed boys and men performed a series of offensive and defensive movements to music. The leaf shape framing the dancer is a common decorative motif in early Byzantine Fragment with an Armed Dancer 443319

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