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Diana-Pillars
Fig. 92.
kais. deutsch. arch. Inst, j 896 xi. 99 n. 56, 100 n. 58, Reinach Rip. Reliefs iii. -220 no. 2,
M. Rostowzew 'Die hellenistisch-romische Architekturlandschaft ' in the Rom. Rlitth. 191
xxvi. 105 f.), shows Hermaphrodites nursing the infant Eros, who arranges a wreath on a
herm to the right. To the left an archaistic Artemis, wearing a skin and holding a fawn
on her shoulder, is mounted on a pilaster. (Restored : Hermaphrodites' nose, right hand,
phallos ; Eros' right fore-arm ; the herm's beard and phallds ; Artemis' head ; the fawn's
head.) The background represents a precinct-wall, above which we see in the centre an
ancient oak with a band twined about its trunk, to the right an Ionic column with a
burning torch tied to its shaft and a vase set on its capital, to the left a circular pillar-
shrine with Ionic columns, windows, entablature, second row of windows, and battle-
ments, the shrine enclosing a Diana-pillar with two torches bound to it.
Fig. 92, a marble relief (height o'30'", breadth o"34'") found at Rome in 1820 and now
at Munich (Furtwangler Glyptothek zu Muncheti p. 370 f. no 455, id. ib.^ p. 397 no. 455,
id. Ein Iu(ndert Tafebi nach den Bildiverken der kgl. Glyptothek zu Miinchen Munchen
1903 pi. 93, 2, J. M. Wagner in the Ann. d. Inst. 1836 viii. 47 — 52, Mon. d. Inst, ii
pi. 27, Boetticher Baumkultus pp. i56ff., 543 fig. 56, T. Schreiber Die hellenistischen
Reliefbilder Leipzig 1890 pi. So, id. 'Die hellenistischen Reliefbilder und die augusteische
' Kunst in the yahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1896 xi. 99 n. 56, 100 n. 58, J. E.
Harrison ' Mystica vannus lacchi ' in the jfourn. Hell. Slnd. 1903 xxiii. 297 f. fig. 6, ead.
' Note on the mystica vannus lacchi' in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1903— 1904 x. 147,
Reinach Rip. Reliefs \\. 82 no. i, M. Rostowzew ' Die hellenislisch-rdmische Architek-
turlandschaft' in the Rom. Mittli. 191 1 xxvi. 102 f.), portrays a countryman driving a
cow to market. He carries a basket and a pole with a dead hare hanging from it ; his
cow has a couple of sheep slung pannier-wise over its back. (Restored : the countryman's
head and right fore-arm, basket, pole with part of hare ; the cow's head.) Behind this