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Animals accompanying Dionysus in his retinue stand in sharp contrast to one another. The bull, goat and ass symbolize fertility and sexual desire, while the lion, panther and lynx symbolize a bloodthirsty desire to kill. See Walter F. Otto, Dionysiac Myth and Cult (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 110–111.
Strabo xvi 4, 5; 7; Diodorus Siculus iii 26–27; 36, 3; Paul G.P. Meyboom, The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian Religion in Italy (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), pp. 289–91, n. 44–45, 47; Stanley M. Burstein, Agatharchides of Cnidus On the Erythraean Sea (London: Hakluyt Society, 1989), pp. 4–12.
Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski, Corpus of Mosaics from Egypt I: Hellenistic and Early Roman Period (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1985), pp. 103–110, plates 4–5, 10–12; Daszewski, “Some problems of early mosaics from Egypt,” in Herwig Maehler and Volker M. Strocka, eds., Das Ptolemäische Ägypten, Akten des internationalen Symposions, 27–29 September 1976 in Berlin (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1978) pp. 128–35; figures 116, 119–21.
