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The Dionysus Sardanapalus is a Hellenistic-Roman Neo Attic sculpture-type of the god Dionysus, misnamed after the king Sardanapalus. Unlike many contemporary figurations of Dionysus as a lithe youth, the self-consciously archaising god is heavily draped, with an ivy wreath and a long archaic-style beard; probably he bore a thyrsos in a raised right hand, now missing.
The misidentification with Sardanapalus was erroneously confirmed in the example in the Vatican Museums, which was provided in antiquity with an inscription that reads ϹΑΡΔΑΝΑΠΑΛΛΟϹ (Sardanápallos), giving the type its erroneous name (it has no true association with this legendary king). It was also restored with a modern thyrsus in wood and iron. The Roman copy is based on a lost earlier Greek original of about 350-325 BCE and has been attributed to Praxiteles.
In the early 19th century, Ennio Quirino Visconti cogently argued, against Johan…
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