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Fig. 6.—The Gesture of Adoration.
Figure from a Relief found at Gortyna in Crete,
now in the Louvre, Paris.
Mon. d. Inst., iv. 22, 1.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet. fig. 117.
The gesture is that described above (Pl. 14, fig. 3). The
index finger is laid on the top of the thumb, and the hand is
raised to the level of the shoulder.
Figs. 7-13.—Votive Reliefs from Golgoi, Cyprus.
Rough Carvings in Stone found by General Cesnola
at Golgoi in Cyprus.
Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 158.
Votive offerings in the shape of some part of the body that
had been cured of disease through prayer to a god were
extremely popular in antiquity. Numbers of them have been
discovered, especially in the ruins of temples of Aesculapius.
They are often of terra-cotta.
Fig. 14.—Portable Shrine,
Found at Marseilles.
Archaologische Anzeiger, 1866, Pl. b.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 135.
A shrine (ναΐσκος, aedicula) of Cybele of the same kind as
fig. 5, except that the goddess is seated.
Fig. 15.—Votive Pillars.
From the Acropolis, Athens.
Ross, Arch. Aufsdtze, 1, Pl. 14.
Pillars with a round capital of the same piece as the shaft
have been found in great abundance on the Acropolis.
They were used to support votive offerings, statues of a deity
or of some animal associated with her worship. Pillars of the
same shape were also much used as gravestones and as
boundary marks.
They are often inscribed ; the pillar on the left, for instance,
having an inscription in early Attic characters Έόρτιος κα'ε
Όψεά8ης άνεθετην απαρχήν τ Αθηναία.
Fig. 16.—Sacrifice to Artemis Agrotera.
Figures from a Relief on a Sarcophagus found at
Constantinople. In the Louvre.
Archaologische Zeitung, 1857, Pl. 107.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 190.
Seyffert, Diet., p. 552.
The relief depicts the story of Phaedra. The seated figure
in the cut is Theseus, with a drawn sword on his knee, hold-
ing a boar spear, with two prongs on each side of the blade.
He has just returned from the chase, and a youthful attendant
is busied fixing antlers as a dedication to a rustic shrine of
Artemis Agrotera, while another carries off a boar. Near the
latter is a horse drinking.
The custom of dedicating antlers, skins or hoofs of slain
game to Artemis was a common one {cf. Plutarch, Quaest. Rom.
4). Such offerings are often depicted in Hellenistic and
Graeco-Roman reliefs and paintings, as part of a pastoral
scene.
Fig. 17.—Altar to a Deified Hero.
In the Collection at the School, Lesbos, 2 ft. high.
Greek of the Roman Imperial Period.
Conze, Lesbos, Pl. 4, fig. 5 ; p. 11.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 426.
■A round altar ornamented on the side with carvings of cups
(ψιάλαι = paterae') and ramsheads, suggesting sacrifices and
libations. A heavy wreath hangs from these.
On the top is a hollow near which two serpents are carved,
typifying the spirit of the deified dead {cf. Pl. 18, figs. 1, 4).
Below is the inscription (’Ο) 8άρεος {’ Αρ)εστάν8ρω τω Κλεοτεΐρ,ω
ηρωε, showing that the hero was not a mythological, but a real
person ; Conze notes that the round shape of the altar is not
usual in Lesbos. It seems to have been chiefly used in the
worship of the heroic dead.
Fig. 18.—Purificatory Sacrifice.
Red-figured Painting on an Oil-flask {lecythus) in the
Collection of the Archaeological Society at the Poly-
technic (No. 3830), Athens. Attic, Fifth Century b.c.
Heydemann, Griechische Vasenbilder, Pl. ii. 3.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 2911.
A young woman, clad in a long shift (χιτών) holds a basket
of sacrificial meal (?) in her left hand and a young pig in her
right. In front, three burning torches stick upright in the
earth. She is preparing to sacrifice a purificatory offering
{καθαρμός) to the underworld deities, and for this purpose the
blood of a pig was of special efficacy ; cf. the purification of
Orestes κα0αρ/χοις χοιροκτόνοις.
Fig. 19.—Dedicated Terra-cotta Tablet.
Painted Terra-cotta Plaque, found near Corinth. In
the Louvre, Paris. Corinthian of about 600 b.c.
Collignon, Mythologie Figuree, fig. 77, p. 205.
Euy, Archaeology, fig. in.
Gazette Archeologique, 1880, p. 104.
This is one of a numerous series of votive tablets found near
Corinth, most of which are now in the Berlin Antiquarium.
Poseidon (Ποτειδαν in archaic Corinthian characters), stands
holding his trident in one hand and a wreath in the other. He
wears long hair, a long shirr (χιτών) and a mantle, all of the
archaic style.
In front is inscribed “ Igron dedicated me ” (Τγ(ρ)ων
p. ανεθηκε).
There are two holes in the upper part of the plaque, to
enable it to be suspended {cf. fig. 20, and Pl. 4, figs. 2, 3.
Fig. 20.—Herm, Laver and Votive Pictures.
Red-figured Painting on a Vase. Attic, of the Fifth
Century b.c.
Gerhard, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Pl. 63, 4.
Baumeister, Denkmdler, p. 673, Suppl. Pl. fig. 3.
Collignon, Mythologie figuree, fig. 43.
Harrison, Mythology and Monuments, p. 130, fig. 26.
The herm {cf. Pl. 13, fig. 7) consists of a square pillar with
a human head. It owes its name to the fact that in Athens,
statues of the god Hermes of this kind were stood in the
streets and in the temples {cf. Thucydides vi. 27. 'Ερρ,αι—
Αίθενοε—εεσε 8ε κατά το επεχώρεον, η τετράγωνος εργασία, ττολλοΐ
καί εν ε8εοες προθνροες και εν εεροες) Similar Statues of Other
deities, e.g. Hecate {cf. Pl. 16, fig. 1), and Dionysus, were not
uncommon and, in fact, the type is ultimately the same as that
of the £όανα {cf. Pl. 14, fig. 8). Near the herm stands a basin
such as was used in wrestling schools {cf. Pl. 23, fig. 3) or in
private houses {cf. Pl. 83, fig. 4) for bathing. On the wall in
the background are a couple of votive tablets with pictures of
the herm.
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Figure from a Relief found at Gortyna in Crete,
now in the Louvre, Paris.
Mon. d. Inst., iv. 22, 1.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet. fig. 117.
The gesture is that described above (Pl. 14, fig. 3). The
index finger is laid on the top of the thumb, and the hand is
raised to the level of the shoulder.
Figs. 7-13.—Votive Reliefs from Golgoi, Cyprus.
Rough Carvings in Stone found by General Cesnola
at Golgoi in Cyprus.
Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 158.
Votive offerings in the shape of some part of the body that
had been cured of disease through prayer to a god were
extremely popular in antiquity. Numbers of them have been
discovered, especially in the ruins of temples of Aesculapius.
They are often of terra-cotta.
Fig. 14.—Portable Shrine,
Found at Marseilles.
Archaologische Anzeiger, 1866, Pl. b.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 135.
A shrine (ναΐσκος, aedicula) of Cybele of the same kind as
fig. 5, except that the goddess is seated.
Fig. 15.—Votive Pillars.
From the Acropolis, Athens.
Ross, Arch. Aufsdtze, 1, Pl. 14.
Pillars with a round capital of the same piece as the shaft
have been found in great abundance on the Acropolis.
They were used to support votive offerings, statues of a deity
or of some animal associated with her worship. Pillars of the
same shape were also much used as gravestones and as
boundary marks.
They are often inscribed ; the pillar on the left, for instance,
having an inscription in early Attic characters Έόρτιος κα'ε
Όψεά8ης άνεθετην απαρχήν τ Αθηναία.
Fig. 16.—Sacrifice to Artemis Agrotera.
Figures from a Relief on a Sarcophagus found at
Constantinople. In the Louvre.
Archaologische Zeitung, 1857, Pl. 107.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 190.
Seyffert, Diet., p. 552.
The relief depicts the story of Phaedra. The seated figure
in the cut is Theseus, with a drawn sword on his knee, hold-
ing a boar spear, with two prongs on each side of the blade.
He has just returned from the chase, and a youthful attendant
is busied fixing antlers as a dedication to a rustic shrine of
Artemis Agrotera, while another carries off a boar. Near the
latter is a horse drinking.
The custom of dedicating antlers, skins or hoofs of slain
game to Artemis was a common one {cf. Plutarch, Quaest. Rom.
4). Such offerings are often depicted in Hellenistic and
Graeco-Roman reliefs and paintings, as part of a pastoral
scene.
Fig. 17.—Altar to a Deified Hero.
In the Collection at the School, Lesbos, 2 ft. high.
Greek of the Roman Imperial Period.
Conze, Lesbos, Pl. 4, fig. 5 ; p. 11.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 426.
■A round altar ornamented on the side with carvings of cups
(ψιάλαι = paterae') and ramsheads, suggesting sacrifices and
libations. A heavy wreath hangs from these.
On the top is a hollow near which two serpents are carved,
typifying the spirit of the deified dead {cf. Pl. 18, figs. 1, 4).
Below is the inscription (’Ο) 8άρεος {’ Αρ)εστάν8ρω τω Κλεοτεΐρ,ω
ηρωε, showing that the hero was not a mythological, but a real
person ; Conze notes that the round shape of the altar is not
usual in Lesbos. It seems to have been chiefly used in the
worship of the heroic dead.
Fig. 18.—Purificatory Sacrifice.
Red-figured Painting on an Oil-flask {lecythus) in the
Collection of the Archaeological Society at the Poly-
technic (No. 3830), Athens. Attic, Fifth Century b.c.
Heydemann, Griechische Vasenbilder, Pl. ii. 3.
Daremberg et Saglio, Diet., fig. 2911.
A young woman, clad in a long shift (χιτών) holds a basket
of sacrificial meal (?) in her left hand and a young pig in her
right. In front, three burning torches stick upright in the
earth. She is preparing to sacrifice a purificatory offering
{καθαρμός) to the underworld deities, and for this purpose the
blood of a pig was of special efficacy ; cf. the purification of
Orestes κα0αρ/χοις χοιροκτόνοις.
Fig. 19.—Dedicated Terra-cotta Tablet.
Painted Terra-cotta Plaque, found near Corinth. In
the Louvre, Paris. Corinthian of about 600 b.c.
Collignon, Mythologie Figuree, fig. 77, p. 205.
Euy, Archaeology, fig. in.
Gazette Archeologique, 1880, p. 104.
This is one of a numerous series of votive tablets found near
Corinth, most of which are now in the Berlin Antiquarium.
Poseidon (Ποτειδαν in archaic Corinthian characters), stands
holding his trident in one hand and a wreath in the other. He
wears long hair, a long shirr (χιτών) and a mantle, all of the
archaic style.
In front is inscribed “ Igron dedicated me ” (Τγ(ρ)ων
p. ανεθηκε).
There are two holes in the upper part of the plaque, to
enable it to be suspended {cf. fig. 20, and Pl. 4, figs. 2, 3.
Fig. 20.—Herm, Laver and Votive Pictures.
Red-figured Painting on a Vase. Attic, of the Fifth
Century b.c.
Gerhard, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Pl. 63, 4.
Baumeister, Denkmdler, p. 673, Suppl. Pl. fig. 3.
Collignon, Mythologie figuree, fig. 43.
Harrison, Mythology and Monuments, p. 130, fig. 26.
The herm {cf. Pl. 13, fig. 7) consists of a square pillar with
a human head. It owes its name to the fact that in Athens,
statues of the god Hermes of this kind were stood in the
streets and in the temples {cf. Thucydides vi. 27. 'Ερρ,αι—
Αίθενοε—εεσε 8ε κατά το επεχώρεον, η τετράγωνος εργασία, ττολλοΐ
καί εν ε8εοες προθνροες και εν εεροες) Similar Statues of Other
deities, e.g. Hecate {cf. Pl. 16, fig. 1), and Dionysus, were not
uncommon and, in fact, the type is ultimately the same as that
of the £όανα {cf. Pl. 14, fig. 8). Near the herm stands a basin
such as was used in wrestling schools {cf. Pl. 23, fig. 3) or in
private houses {cf. Pl. 83, fig. 4) for bathing. On the wall in
the background are a couple of votive tablets with pictures of
the herm.
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