Statue of a bearded Dionysus, known as ‘Dionysus Sardanapalus’

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Statue of a bearded Dionysus, known as ‘Dionysus Sardanapalus’
Statue of a bearded Dionysus, known as ‘Dionysus Sardanapalus’

The misidentification of these types of older, bearded figures as Sardanapallos, a king of Assyria, has led to these figures of Dionysus being known as ‘Dionysus Sardanapollos’ (or Sardanapalus). They’re an uncommon type, depicting the god with long hair tied back with a fillet, very heavily draped, and sporting a long archaic beard. This is an older god, without the heroic body. He would have originally held a thyrsus (his ivy leaf-topped ‘magic wand’) in his raised right hand.

The right arm here is reconstructed, and all other examples of this sculpture are missing the vulnerable right arm as well (e.g. the version in the Palazzo Massimo, also in Rome, and in the British Museum in London).

Based on a Greek original of the second half of the 4th century BCE, possibly from Praxiteles’ workshop.

Roman, ca 1st century CE (?)
Made from Luni marble

Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini, inv. 3035

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