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PLATE XIX.
STATUE OF CERES, OR ISIS.
" A statue of Ceres, crowned in the manner of the Egyptian
Isis. In front of the diadem is a disk or globe placed between
two serpents, and surmounted with ears of corn, conformable to
the description which is given of this goddess by Apuleius.1 In
her right hand are some ears of corn and in her left hand she
holds the thuribulum,"2 or rather situla.3
This figure is clothed in a very long and ample tunic descending
quite to the ground, leaving visible only the extremities of the feet;
the sleeves are extremely full, falling down to the elbows, and fas-
tened, along the upper side of the arms, only by fibulae. Over
this she wears a pallium, which consists of an oblong piece of
cloth, doubled at about one third of its height from its upper end,
1 Corona multiformis-cujus media quidem super frontem plana rotunditas in
modum speculi vel immo argumentum lunse candidum lumen emicabat. Dextra
lajvaque sulcis insurgentium viperarum cohibita, spicis etiam Cerialibus desuper por-
rectis. Apuleius. Met. Hildebrand, Lips. 1842, xi. p. 58.
2 Combe's MS. Notes.
3 See the description of Isis, Servius, in Mn. viii. 696. Isis est genius JEgypti,
qui per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque significat; per
situlam (al. sitellam) quam sinistra retinet, ostendit affluentiam omnium lacunarum;
&c. cf. Mythog. Vet. ii. 90. perhaps this situla was the same as the cymbium, Apu-
leius, xi. c. 4. p. 760. though in the description of the Pompa Isiaca, ibid. c. 10.
p. 774. he applies the term cymbium to a kind of lamp. The situla in the hand of
Isis occurs on various Greek copper coins of a late date, from the time of JElius
Cassar to that of Gordianus Pius. cf. Mionnet. ii. p. 234. No. 42. hi. 151. No. 658,
ibid. p. 155. No. 684. Supp. iv. p. 229. No. 51. p. 254. No. 118. Mus. Hunter,
Tab. xxxv. fig. 12. and on a bas relief in the British Museum,
PLATE XIX.
STATUE OF CERES, OR ISIS.
" A statue of Ceres, crowned in the manner of the Egyptian
Isis. In front of the diadem is a disk or globe placed between
two serpents, and surmounted with ears of corn, conformable to
the description which is given of this goddess by Apuleius.1 In
her right hand are some ears of corn and in her left hand she
holds the thuribulum,"2 or rather situla.3
This figure is clothed in a very long and ample tunic descending
quite to the ground, leaving visible only the extremities of the feet;
the sleeves are extremely full, falling down to the elbows, and fas-
tened, along the upper side of the arms, only by fibulae. Over
this she wears a pallium, which consists of an oblong piece of
cloth, doubled at about one third of its height from its upper end,
1 Corona multiformis-cujus media quidem super frontem plana rotunditas in
modum speculi vel immo argumentum lunse candidum lumen emicabat. Dextra
lajvaque sulcis insurgentium viperarum cohibita, spicis etiam Cerialibus desuper por-
rectis. Apuleius. Met. Hildebrand, Lips. 1842, xi. p. 58.
2 Combe's MS. Notes.
3 See the description of Isis, Servius, in Mn. viii. 696. Isis est genius JEgypti,
qui per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque significat; per
situlam (al. sitellam) quam sinistra retinet, ostendit affluentiam omnium lacunarum;
&c. cf. Mythog. Vet. ii. 90. perhaps this situla was the same as the cymbium, Apu-
leius, xi. c. 4. p. 760. though in the description of the Pompa Isiaca, ibid. c. 10.
p. 774. he applies the term cymbium to a kind of lamp. The situla in the hand of
Isis occurs on various Greek copper coins of a late date, from the time of JElius
Cassar to that of Gordianus Pius. cf. Mionnet. ii. p. 234. No. 42. hi. 151. No. 658,
ibid. p. 155. No. 684. Supp. iv. p. 229. No. 51. p. 254. No. 118. Mus. Hunter,
Tab. xxxv. fig. 12. and on a bas relief in the British Museum,