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further supports a suggestion first made by A. von Le Coq Bildefatlaszur Kunst
undKulturgeschichte Mittel-Asiens Berlin 1925 pp. 26, 83 fig. 159 (Pancika and
child) viz. that Herakles with Eros on his shoulder ultimately gave rise to the
legend of St Christopher bearing the Christ-child (for bibliography etc. see
K. Kiinstle Ikonographie der Heiligeii Freiburg im Breisgau 1926 pp. 154—160
figs. 66—68). It is, however, far from certain that such was the ??iotif of Lysippos'
bronze; and another possible prototype for St Christopher and the Child is the
Pompeian Polyphemos driven by the infant Eros (infra p. 1023).

(10) Ei-os at-the-shoulder was a motif obviously better suited to painting or
to bas-relief than to sculpture in the round. Nevertheless Hellenistic art pro-
duced, not only such types as that of a marble statuette from Pella in Makedonia,
now at Christ Church, Oxford, which shows Eros standing on a tree-trunk and
leaning against the right shoulder of Aphrodite (Mrs A. Strong in Burlington
Fine Arts Club: Exhibition of Ancie?it Greek Art London 1904 p. 21 no. 28
pi. 27 = Reinach R/p. Stat. iv. 231 no. 5), or that of a terra cotta from Myrina,
now in the Albertinum at Dresden, which makes him stand on a pillar and rest
his hand on her left shoulder (Winter Ant. Terralcotten iii. 2. 84 fig. 9), but also
the type of the little fellow leaning forward all agog over his mother's left shoulder
{e.g. the bronzes in Clarac Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 632 d figs. 1295 a Turin (A. Fa-
bretti in the Atti delta Societd di archeologia e belle arti per la provincia di
Torino 1880 iii. 99 f. pi. 15, 2) and 1295 b Paris = Reinach Rep. Stat. i. 342
nos. 4 and 5. Cp. the terracottas given by Winter op. cit. iii. 2. 46 fig. 3
( = Furtwangler Samml. Sabouroff Terres cuites pi. 133, 2), 195 fig. 7, 200 fig. 9,
202 fig. 4) or perched precariously on either shoulder [e.g. the terracottas in
Winter op. cit. iii. 2. 85 fig. 8 Asia Minor ( = C. Lecuyer Terres cuites antiques
trouve'es e?i Grcce et en Asie mineure Paris 1882 pi. H3 (modern?)), ioi fig. 1
Rudiae, cp. 82 fig. 7 Greece but not Tanagra (= Furtwangler Samml. Sabouroff
Terres cuites pi. 133, 1), 88 fig. 4 Myrina (?)), if not duplicated on both (e.g. a
stone statuette from Beaune, now at Moulins (Catalogue du Muse'e de Moulins
1885 iii. 125, E. Tudot Collection de figuri7ies en argile Paris i860 pi. 75
= Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 376 no. 7), and a gold pendant from south Russia,
now at Petrograd (L. Stephani in the Compte-retidu St. Pet. 1867 p. 47 Atlas
pi. 1, 6 = Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 377 no. 6)), and even ambitious statuary groups
in marble like that from Delos, now in the National Museum at Athens, which
represents a naked Aphrodite defending herself with uplifted sandal against the
advances of Pan and a helpful Eros hovering over her left shoulder (M. Bulard
'Aphrodite, Pan et Eros' in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1906 xxx. 610—631 pis. 13—16
(of which pi. 14 = my fig. S27) (fig. 2 is a second Eros belonging to some similar
group) = Reinach Rc'p. Stat. iv. 230 nos. 2 and 3, C. Picard La sculpture antique
Paris 1926 ii. 263 fig. 103).

(11) Venus with a tiny Cupid on her shoulder appears on denarii struck by
M'. Cordius Rufus (Babelon Monn. rep. rom. i. 383 no. 1 f. rev. fig. (c. 49 b.c.),
M. Bahrfeldt JVacliirdge und Berichtigungen zur Miinzkunde Wien 1897 p. 88
no. 1 pi. 4, 92, H. A. Grueber in Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom. Coins Rep. i. 523 f. nos.
4037—4039 pi. 51, 11 and 12 (c. 46 b.c.), supra ii. 99 n. 1) and by C. Egnatius
Maxsumus (Babelon op. cit. i. 473 f. nos. 1 obv. fig., 2 rev. fig. (c. 69 b.c.))
H. A. Grueber op. cit. i. 399 nos. 3274, 3275 pi. 42, 15, i. 401 nos. 3285—3292
pi. 42, 17 (c. 75 b.c.): see further F. Miinzer in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v.
1997 no. (27)), and on others issued by Iulius Caesar (Babelon op. cit. ii. 11 f.
nos. 11 obv. fig., 12 obv. fig. (c. 50 b.c.), H. A. Grueber op. cit. ii. 368 f. nos. 86—88
pi. 101, 9, nos. 89—92 pi. 101, 10 (c. 45 b.c.)).