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Iupiter-Columns
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a b
Fig. 32-
ration was suggestive of a tree-stem1 and thus served
to bring the hard stone of the Roman monument
between Maubeuge and Avesnes, and now at Brussels (F. Cumont
Catalogue des sculptures dr inscriptions antiques [monuments lapidaires)
des MuseesRoyaux du Cinquantenaire1 Bruxelles 1913 p. 213 ff. no. 173,
Esperandieu Bas-reliefs de la Gaule Rom. v. 192 f. no. 3985). The
surface is covered with a tangle of vine-leaves. Against these is seen
a nude Bacchant, who bounds along with streaming hair: she holds
a thyrsos in her left hand, and with her right pours the contents of a
horn or rhyton into her mouth. Behind her flies a winged Cupid, who
with his right hand steadies a basket of grapes on his head, and in his
left carries some indistinct object: beneath his feet is a small quadruped
(rabbit?) nibbling a grape-bunch. When first discovered, this relief
was in better condition and showed other animals half-hidden in the
vine-shoots. F. Cumont thinks it certain that the drum and the
Viergotterstein found on the same site {supra p. 67 ff. fig. 27) belong to
one monument, and F. Hertlein (op. cit. p. 84) regards the combina-
tion as possible.
On the vine-leaf column as a Syrian w<?/?y"that made its way through-
out the Mediterranean area see S. Gsell in the Atti del II Congr. di
arch, crist. p. 203 ff., C. M. Kaufmann Handbuch der chrisllichen Archa-
ologie'1 Paderborn 1913 p. 483^
1 Durm Baukunst d. Rbm.2 p. 388 f. fig. 426, cp. M. Meurer Ver-
gleichende Formenlehre des Ornamentes tind der Pflanze Dresden 1909
p. 572 ff.
73
a b
Fig. 32-
ration was suggestive of a tree-stem1 and thus served
to bring the hard stone of the Roman monument
between Maubeuge and Avesnes, and now at Brussels (F. Cumont
Catalogue des sculptures dr inscriptions antiques [monuments lapidaires)
des MuseesRoyaux du Cinquantenaire1 Bruxelles 1913 p. 213 ff. no. 173,
Esperandieu Bas-reliefs de la Gaule Rom. v. 192 f. no. 3985). The
surface is covered with a tangle of vine-leaves. Against these is seen
a nude Bacchant, who bounds along with streaming hair: she holds
a thyrsos in her left hand, and with her right pours the contents of a
horn or rhyton into her mouth. Behind her flies a winged Cupid, who
with his right hand steadies a basket of grapes on his head, and in his
left carries some indistinct object: beneath his feet is a small quadruped
(rabbit?) nibbling a grape-bunch. When first discovered, this relief
was in better condition and showed other animals half-hidden in the
vine-shoots. F. Cumont thinks it certain that the drum and the
Viergotterstein found on the same site {supra p. 67 ff. fig. 27) belong to
one monument, and F. Hertlein (op. cit. p. 84) regards the combina-
tion as possible.
On the vine-leaf column as a Syrian w<?/?y"that made its way through-
out the Mediterranean area see S. Gsell in the Atti del II Congr. di
arch, crist. p. 203 ff., C. M. Kaufmann Handbuch der chrisllichen Archa-
ologie'1 Paderborn 1913 p. 483^
1 Durm Baukunst d. Rbm.2 p. 388 f. fig. 426, cp. M. Meurer Ver-
gleichende Formenlehre des Ornamentes tind der Pflanze Dresden 1909
p. 572 ff.