The Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo is an over-lifesize Greek bronze statue remarkably well-preserved despite two millennia spent at the bottom of the sea. (Satiro danzante; Le Satyre dansant; Tanzender Satyr)High: 2;50m- It is an example of a dancing satyr; a sculptural archetype in Hellenistic and Roman art. It could be part of a dionysian procession.- The torso was recovered from the sandy sea floor at a depth of 500 metres off the southwestern coast of Sicily in 1998; in the nets of the same fishing boat (from Mazara del Vallo) that had in the previous year recovered the sculpture's left leg.- The chronology of the statue swings from the 4th century BC (by greek sculptor Praxiteles ?) to a more recently period (3rd or 1st cent. BC)- Museo del Satiro danzante; Mazara del Vallo;Sicily; Italy.(2020)