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Appendix G

paste, Reinach Pierres Gravees p. 52 no. 16, 1 pi. 51 banded agate, cp. Babelon
Monn. rdft. rom. ii. 8 no. 7 fig. reverse type of a quinarius struck by L. Iulius
Bursio in 88 B.C.). A sardonyx formerly in the Poniatovvski cabinet shows
Eros posing as Zeus himself with thunderbolt and sceptre (fig. 896 = T. Cades
Collezione di N° 1400 Impronti delle migliori pietre incise, si antiche, che
moderne, ricavati dalle pin distinte Collezioni conosciute dell' Europa ima
Classe, A 6, 34 'Genio di Giove': genuine? Lippold Gemmen p. 171 pi. 28, 4 says

Fig. 894. Fig. 895.

'Romisch'). If Eros thus usurped the position of the strongest god, a fortiori he
superseded the strongest hero. Lysippos is said to have represented Herakles
as stripped of his weapons by Eros {Anth. Pal. 16. 103. 1 ff. (Tullius Geminus),
cp. 16. 104. 1 ff. (Philippos)); and the incident became a commonplace of later
art (see e.g. M. Collignon in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 1606 fig. 2184,
A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1366, 2248 f., O. Waser in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 510, 513 f.). Hence Eros is arrayed in the hero's spoils

Fig. 896. Fig. 897.

(fig. 897 = Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 64, 19, ii. 290 a sardonyx cameo
of three layers—translucent ground, figure in opaque white, upper surface
brown—at Munich ; of Roman date. Cp. Furtwangler ib. i pi. 62, 2, ii. 280,
id. Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 73 no. 1111 pi. 14 (shown more clearly in C. O.
Miiller Denkmdler der alien Kunst Gottingen 1835 ii. 3. 13 pi. 51, 636) small
convex garnet, p. 135 no. 3020 pi. 25 cornelian, p. 135 nos. 3021—3028 pi. 25
pastes, p. 160 nos. 3713—3716 pastes, p. 237 no. 6482 (G. Winckelmann Monu-
menti antichi inediti Roma 1821 i. 39 f. kXt]8ovxos ! pi. 32) sardonyx), or combines