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68<br />

shod <strong>in</strong><br />

lupiter-Columns<br />

sandals, and one of them rests upon a footstool'.<br />

Fig. 27.<br />

Venus; and the canopy common to her with luno suggests that<br />

she is but another form of the same celestial goddess^—very<br />

^ Perhaps a simplification of the tortoise, on which her foot rests <strong>in</strong> a Viergbtterste<strong>in</strong>-<br />

relief from Lamerey (Haug op. at. 1891 x. 158 cp. 3r5). Pheidias made a chryselephant<strong>in</strong>e<br />

Aphrodite Oupavia at Elis with one foot set on a tortoise (Paus. 6. 25. i, Plout. de Is. at<br />

Os. 76, coniug. praecept. 32: see further Frazer Patisanias iv. 105, Farnell Cults of Gk.<br />

States ii. 681 ff., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. pp. 150, 197 n. 1, 1333 n. 11, 1349 n. 3 f.,<br />

O. Keller Die antike Tierwelt Leipzig 1913 ii. 250, A. Frickenhaus <strong>in</strong> \\i&Jakrb. d. kais.<br />

deutsch. arch. Inst. 1913 xxviii. 363 ff. fig. 7f.).<br />

"^ Venus Caelestis, who <strong>in</strong> name at least was the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite Oiipavia.<br />

(Preller— Robert Gr. Myth. i. 354—357 and Index p. 942, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel.<br />

PP- 1363— Rasche<br />

'365 and Index p. 1701), is known to us from <strong>in</strong>scriptions [Corp. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat.<br />

V no. 8137 f. Pola, ih. vi no. 780 Rome, ib. ix no. 2562 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 3169<br />

Bovianum Undecimanorum, Corp. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. x no. 1596 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4271<br />

Puteoli) and co<strong>in</strong>s {{a) Agripp<strong>in</strong>a lunior : Rasche Lex. Num. x. 887 VENVS CAELESTIS,<br />

cp. ii. 889 f. [d) lulia Domna :<br />

Lex. Nutn. x. 887 VENVS caelestis, cp. ib. 890.<br />

Mann. emp. rotn.'^ iv. 351 no. 286 VENVS cael. (d) Aquilia Severa:<br />

{c) Elagabalos : Cohen<br />

Cohen Mann. etnp. rotn.^ iv. 381 f. no. 10 VENVS caelestis. [e) lulia Soaemias : Cohen<br />

Monn. emp. 7-om.'^ iv. 388 f. nos. 8— 20 venvs caelestis. [f)<br />

Alexander Severus :<br />

Rasche Lex. Num. x. 889 VENVs caelestis, cp. ib- 890 f. (g) Magnia Urbica: Cohen<br />

Monn. cfHp. rom? vi. 407 no. 9 VENVS CELES r. These co<strong>in</strong>s show the goddess stand<strong>in</strong>g,,<br />

or sitt<strong>in</strong>g, with an apple <strong>in</strong> one hand, a sceptre <strong>in</strong> the other, and sometimes a star <strong>in</strong> the<br />

field, or a child at her feet) ; and it is noteworthy that the title Caelestis was liorne by<br />

luno also [Corp. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. iii Suppl. no. 10407 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 3109<br />

Aqu<strong>in</strong>cum, Co7p. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. viii no. 1424 Thibursicum Bure, Mart. Cap. 58). Both

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