of the Assyrian Monarchy: 346 
A statue lately in the museum at Paris, but now re- 
stored to its former situation in the collection of the Pope 
(Mus. Pio-Clem. Tom 11.pl. 31.) exhibits a majestic figure, 
with a diadem on the forehead, a long beard,-a tunic 
reaching to the feet, and an ample robe; and’on the bor- 
ders of the garment is inscribed C APAANAIIAAAOC; 
Winckelmann, maintaining that this could not possibly be 
the effeminate prince who did not allow his beard to grow; 
in order that he might appear like a woman, gave it the 
name of the Indian Bacchus, which has since been gene- 
rally. acquiesced in by antiquaries, and the inscription 
has’ passed for a later addition. Yet in proportion to the 
incongruity between the attributes of this statue, and the 
common accounts of Sardanapallus, is the improbability 
that any one should affix his name to it. We have already 
seen that Sardanapallus was not exclusively the frivolous 
voluptuary, whom history represents him to have been, 
and as he is identified with’ Hercules, he has many points 
in.commen with Bacchus, who was only the same great 
luminary the sun, personified with somewhat different at- 
tributes, and having a different series’ of adventures as- 
scribed to him. Perhaps therefore the inscription may 
be genuine, and Bacchus and Sardanapallus he identified 
in this curious statue, as we have seen Hercules and Sar- 
danapallus on the coins and in the traditions of Tarsus. 
(34) What reliance is to be placed upon ancient tra- 
ditions, respecting the places of sepulture of kings and 
heroes, may be seen in the very closely analogous case 
of Memnon. This celebrated chieftain is said to have 
been killed at Troy, and several places claimed the honour 
of being able to exhibit his tomb. The most common ac- 
count, certainly, represents him as being buried on the 
banks of the sepus, and not far from the place at which 
he fell. Q. Calaber 2. 584. Strabo 13. p. 404. Pausan. x. 
875. Simonides, however, places his tomb in Syria, near 
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