English: From Samandağı, second to third century AD, inv. 945. Dionysus and Ariadne, Env. 945/c. From Samandaĝ, 2nd-3rd century AD. In this mosaic the artis has used the façade of a building both as a background and as a frame to divide his picture into three parts. In the central panel Ariadne is sleeping in a sitting position with Dionysus (mainly erased) standing behind and to the left of her. Between them but still further in the background Eros can be seen . In the right panel a satyr, and in the left a maenad. Above the garlanded architrave is a crater (a large vessel) and arranged on either side of the crater, gryphons, bowls and eagles. From Enc. Britt.: (Ariadne:) in Greek mythology, daughter of Pasiphae and the Cretan king Minos. She fell in love with the Athenian hero Theseus and, with a thread or glittering jewels, helped him escape the Labyrinth after he slew the Minotaur, a beast half bull and half man that Minos kept in the Labyrinth. Here the legends diverge: she was abandoned by Theseus and hanged herself; Theseus carried her to Naxos and left her there to die or to marry the god Dionysus; or she died in childbirth on Cyprus.This must be the Dionysus variation: