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Appendix Q
APPENDIX O.
THE PROMPTING EROS.
The evolution of this artistic type deserves fuller treatment than it has yet
received. Its successive stages may be exemplified as follows:
(l) A small plaque of reddish gold, found in the third shaft-grave at Mykenai,
shows a nude Aphrodite (Astarte?) pressing her breasts, with a dove flying over
her head. A second plaque of yellow gold, from the same grave, repeats the
motif but adds two other doves flying from her shoulders (H. Schliemann
Mycence London 1878 p. 180 f. fig. 267 f, C. Schuchhardt Schliemann's Ex-
cavations trans. E. Sellers London 1891 p. 197 f. fig. i8of., Perrot—Chipiez Hist,
de PArt vi. 652 fig. 293 f., Ch. Tsountas—J. I. Manatt The Mycenaean Age
London 1897 p. 101 f. fig. 38 f., Stais Coll. Mycenicnne: Athcnes p. 13 ff.
no. 27 fig., Sir A. J. Evans The Palace of Minos London 1921 i. 223 with
fig. 169, H. T. Bossert Altkreta* Berlin 1923 pp. 32, 220 fig. 311 e, G. Karo
Die Schachtgrdber von Mykenai Miinchen 1930/33 p. 48 pi. 27, 28 and 27 (=my
figs. 822, 823).
Fig. 822. Fig. 823.
(2) A bronze mirror-stand from Hermione, Greek work of c. 600—550 B.C.,
now in the Museum antiker Kleinkunst at Munich, represents a nude Aphrodite
with two human-headed birds (Sirens) perched on lotos-flowers to left and right
of her shoulders (J. Sieveking Antike Metallgcrdtc Miinchen s.a. pp. 9, 12 pi. 19
front ( = my fig. 824) and back).
(3) Towards the close of s. vi B.C. other variations were attempted. A bronze
mirror-stand from Corinth, now at Athens, figures Aphrodite, draped in Ionic
chiton and himdtion, holding a dove in her right hand, while two winged Sphinxes
rest a forepaw on either shoulder of the goddess (Stais Marbrcs et Bronzes:
Athcnes* p. 337 no. 11691 fig., C. D. Mylonas in the Arch. Zeit. 1875 xxxiii.
161 no. 1 pi. 14, 1, E. Pottier in A. Dumont—J. Chaplain Lcs ceramiques de la
Grece propre Paris 1890 ii. 249 no. 2 pi. 33). Another bronze mirror-stand, Greek
(Corinthian? Argive?) work of c. 500 B.C., formerly in the Cook collection at
Richmond, has Aphrodite in Ionic chiton and Voncpcplos, but replaces the soul-
Appendix Q
APPENDIX O.
THE PROMPTING EROS.
The evolution of this artistic type deserves fuller treatment than it has yet
received. Its successive stages may be exemplified as follows:
(l) A small plaque of reddish gold, found in the third shaft-grave at Mykenai,
shows a nude Aphrodite (Astarte?) pressing her breasts, with a dove flying over
her head. A second plaque of yellow gold, from the same grave, repeats the
motif but adds two other doves flying from her shoulders (H. Schliemann
Mycence London 1878 p. 180 f. fig. 267 f, C. Schuchhardt Schliemann's Ex-
cavations trans. E. Sellers London 1891 p. 197 f. fig. i8of., Perrot—Chipiez Hist,
de PArt vi. 652 fig. 293 f., Ch. Tsountas—J. I. Manatt The Mycenaean Age
London 1897 p. 101 f. fig. 38 f., Stais Coll. Mycenicnne: Athcnes p. 13 ff.
no. 27 fig., Sir A. J. Evans The Palace of Minos London 1921 i. 223 with
fig. 169, H. T. Bossert Altkreta* Berlin 1923 pp. 32, 220 fig. 311 e, G. Karo
Die Schachtgrdber von Mykenai Miinchen 1930/33 p. 48 pi. 27, 28 and 27 (=my
figs. 822, 823).
Fig. 822. Fig. 823.
(2) A bronze mirror-stand from Hermione, Greek work of c. 600—550 B.C.,
now in the Museum antiker Kleinkunst at Munich, represents a nude Aphrodite
with two human-headed birds (Sirens) perched on lotos-flowers to left and right
of her shoulders (J. Sieveking Antike Metallgcrdtc Miinchen s.a. pp. 9, 12 pi. 19
front ( = my fig. 824) and back).
(3) Towards the close of s. vi B.C. other variations were attempted. A bronze
mirror-stand from Corinth, now at Athens, figures Aphrodite, draped in Ionic
chiton and himdtion, holding a dove in her right hand, while two winged Sphinxes
rest a forepaw on either shoulder of the goddess (Stais Marbrcs et Bronzes:
Athcnes* p. 337 no. 11691 fig., C. D. Mylonas in the Arch. Zeit. 1875 xxxiii.
161 no. 1 pi. 14, 1, E. Pottier in A. Dumont—J. Chaplain Lcs ceramiques de la
Grece propre Paris 1890 ii. 249 no. 2 pi. 33). Another bronze mirror-stand, Greek
(Corinthian? Argive?) work of c. 500 B.C., formerly in the Cook collection at
Richmond, has Aphrodite in Ionic chiton and Voncpcplos, but replaces the soul-