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Diana-Pillars

vase, complete the architecture of the shrine. Branches and ribands
are twined about it; a jointed reed rests against the pillar; a
filleted staff or sceptre lies before it. In the foreground a doe

Fig. 86. y/

drinks, watched by a Nymph. To the left appears Diana with her
hounds; to the right Actaeon, the horns sprouting from his head1.
The choice of this myth may be taken to imply that the pillar was
more or less closely associated with Diana.

1 W. Helbig in the Bull. d. Inst. 1864 p. 37.