Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

V.

THE CONTENTS OF THE TEMPLE.

The Statue of Diana—-The Veil of the Temple—The Carpentum
of the Deity—The Fountain Hypeloeus, within the Temple—■
"Works of Art, within the Temple — The Treasury of the
Temple.

1. The Statue of Diana.

In the primitive ages the gods were worshipped
without images;1 and when corporeal representa-
tions were first given them, they were of shapeless
forms, without any resemblance to the human figure.2
Thus in coins of Cyprus, Venus is represented in the
form of a parabolic cone,3 and this rude image was
preserved even to the time of the emperors Vespa-
sian and Domitian.* The Dorian Apollo and the Juno
of Argos were in the form of a column ; and the
Samian Juno,5 and the Minerva of Lindus were

1 Herodotus ; Lucian. de Dea Syria.

2 Paus. vii. 22 ; Clemens. Alexr. Protrept. p. 30 A ; Themistin.
Oral. xv. Such were the statues of the Attic Minerva and the
Farian Ceres.—(Tertul. cont. Nation, i. 12.)

3 Tacitus, Hist. ii. 2, 3.

4 Tim. Morel, torn. i. pi. 55, Nos. 5 ; 5G, 9 ; 76 ; 29 ; 31 ;
torn. ii. 50, 8 ; G7, 3 ; 83, 8.

5 Earth. Anarch, lxxiv.