Detail from "Statue of Dionysus wearing an ivy wreath or Sardanapalos' type", Pentelic marble, Roman copy, c. 40 from Greek original of c. 509 B.C., said to be from Posilippo, near Naples - British Museum, London, UK.

Note: "This heavily draped statue of the wine-god Dionysos is one of a nuber of Roman copies ... based on a lost Greek original ... with the name "Sardanapalos" ... mythical Assyrian king notorious for his decadent behaviour ... "

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