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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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