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Caci1. Here it remained for a good six hundred years, set in
silver2 to serve as the face of a statue3, the base of which is still to
be seen4. This black, quasi-human face, with its silver setting and
its rich jewellery, must indeed have presented a singular sight,
comparable with that of some black mediaeval Madonna5.

But its original form is imperfectly known. E. Beule6, followed

Fig. 727.

Fig- 73°-

H. Jordan—C. Hulsen Topographie der Stadt Rom im Allerthitm Berlin 1907 i. 3.
|' g' Kiepert—C. Htllsen Formae urbis Romae antiquae- Berolini 1912 p. 25,
• Platner—T. Ashby A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome Oxford 1929
P- 324 f.

Prudent, psristeph. 10. 156 f. lapis nieellus evehendus essedo, I muliebris orisclausus
argento sedet.

k0(jj '^rnob. adv. nat. 7. 49 (after the passage cited supra p. 894 n. 2) et quern omnes
I . e 'Pso iU° videmus in signo oris loco positum, indolatum et asperum et simutacro

^ minus expressam simulatione praebentem.
Plac i ^ayer in ^oscner Lex. Myth. ii. 1525 thinks that the stone from Pessinous was
•^rnob'ln mou'k °^ tne statue> but ne appears to be mistranslating the words of

Th

Ser statue was still existing in the time of Theodosios the Great (378—395 A.D.), for
^na his niece robbed it of its necklace (Zosim. 5. 38).
H- Jordan—C. Hiilsen op. cit. i. 3. 53 with pi. 2, k, S. B. Plainer—T. Ashby

F. p- urimm Teutonic Mythology trans. J. S. Stallybrass London 1882 1. 313 n. 1,
de #'Per Mythobgit der christlichen Kunst Weimar 1847 i. 157. p- Sebillot Le Folk-lore
Paris 1907 iv. 120.

Munich) L" """"""" d'Alhenes Paris 1858 p. 3i/ff- with fig. ( = my fig. 730:

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