Sarcophagus with Scenes of Bacchus

210-220
Marble
The Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, California

The sleeping figure on the right is Ariadne. Her posture and her position under a tree resemble those of Endymion, Dionysos, and Jonah on other sarcophagi.

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Photographed at the Getty Villa by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.