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Roman Portraiture.
ladies had their portraits made as Demeter priestesses in this
attire holding the ears of corn of the “corn-mother” in their
hand (Cf. Hekler in Miinchener archaologische Studien dem
Andenken Furtwanglers gewidmet p. 176 No. 18 (now ill.
Arndt-Amelung 1829) and p. 228 Typus XXI. To 1 add Balin:
Ruines de Timgad, nouvelles decouvertes, 1903, p. 114 fig. 22.
Some examples besides those mentioned by Hekler are: Vibia
Sabina at Constantinople, which may be dated as late as the
years 212-17, Mendel: Cat. I 1912 p. 347 No. 137; also a num-
ber of statues in the Bardo Museum in Tunisia, Musee Alaoui
II pls. XXXII seqq. and XXXV 3. Merlin: Temple d’Apollon a
Bulla Regia, pl. V 3. Other examples in a survey in an article
by Wolters in Festschrift fiir James Loeb p. 127 with note
69). The manner in which the torch should be restored is
shown in a statue (with modern head) in the Palazzo Doria
(Arndt-Amelung 2284). Women alone went in for the De-
meter cult: mulieres ac virgines. The officers of the temple:
sacerdotes and antistae, had also to be women of noble
descent (majores natu, probatae ac nobiles mulieres. Cicero
in Verrem IV 99). During the sacrifices’they wore bands
(infulae) and consecrated leaves (verbenae. Cf. Servius in
Aeneid. 12, 120: verbenas vocamus omnes frondes sacratas
ut est laurus, oliva vel myrtus).
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. X. Reinach: R6p. Stat. II 2 656, 9; IV 138, 3; V 2,
373, 6. Sale catalogue of the Collezione Benvenuto Cosentini. Naples 1908,
pl. IV No. 582. Wolters, Die Antike VI 1930 p. 300 fig. 10. Wolters regarded
the prototype as Hellenistic, dating from about 200 B. C.
552 b. (I. N. 2577). Roman lady as Demeter. M.
II. 1.48. The tip of the nose, part of the right hip and the hind-
most part of the plinth modern in marble. The figure has been
much worked over and deprived of its style and charm. It was
earlier in the Palazzo Drago at Rome and was acquired from Rome
in 1911.
The woman is wearing a chiton, and the nape of the neck
and head are covered by a himation of which she is lifting
one corner upwards in front of her breast with her right
hand. The type is the same as that of the large Herculan-
aise at Dresden (cf. Nos. 310 and 311 and Furtwangler-Ur-
lichs: Denkmaler der griech.-rom. Skulp.3 pl. 59). This type
in female portrait statues was used for centuries by the
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ladies had their portraits made as Demeter priestesses in this
attire holding the ears of corn of the “corn-mother” in their
hand (Cf. Hekler in Miinchener archaologische Studien dem
Andenken Furtwanglers gewidmet p. 176 No. 18 (now ill.
Arndt-Amelung 1829) and p. 228 Typus XXI. To 1 add Balin:
Ruines de Timgad, nouvelles decouvertes, 1903, p. 114 fig. 22.
Some examples besides those mentioned by Hekler are: Vibia
Sabina at Constantinople, which may be dated as late as the
years 212-17, Mendel: Cat. I 1912 p. 347 No. 137; also a num-
ber of statues in the Bardo Museum in Tunisia, Musee Alaoui
II pls. XXXII seqq. and XXXV 3. Merlin: Temple d’Apollon a
Bulla Regia, pl. V 3. Other examples in a survey in an article
by Wolters in Festschrift fiir James Loeb p. 127 with note
69). The manner in which the torch should be restored is
shown in a statue (with modern head) in the Palazzo Doria
(Arndt-Amelung 2284). Women alone went in for the De-
meter cult: mulieres ac virgines. The officers of the temple:
sacerdotes and antistae, had also to be women of noble
descent (majores natu, probatae ac nobiles mulieres. Cicero
in Verrem IV 99). During the sacrifices’they wore bands
(infulae) and consecrated leaves (verbenae. Cf. Servius in
Aeneid. 12, 120: verbenas vocamus omnes frondes sacratas
ut est laurus, oliva vel myrtus).
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. X. Reinach: R6p. Stat. II 2 656, 9; IV 138, 3; V 2,
373, 6. Sale catalogue of the Collezione Benvenuto Cosentini. Naples 1908,
pl. IV No. 582. Wolters, Die Antike VI 1930 p. 300 fig. 10. Wolters regarded
the prototype as Hellenistic, dating from about 200 B. C.
552 b. (I. N. 2577). Roman lady as Demeter. M.
II. 1.48. The tip of the nose, part of the right hip and the hind-
most part of the plinth modern in marble. The figure has been
much worked over and deprived of its style and charm. It was
earlier in the Palazzo Drago at Rome and was acquired from Rome
in 1911.
The woman is wearing a chiton, and the nape of the neck
and head are covered by a himation of which she is lifting
one corner upwards in front of her breast with her right
hand. The type is the same as that of the large Herculan-
aise at Dresden (cf. Nos. 310 and 311 and Furtwangler-Ur-
lichs: Denkmaler der griech.-rom. Skulp.3 pl. 59). This type
in female portrait statues was used for centuries by the
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