Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

SCULPTURES FROM CYRENE.

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year. The date of his death is unknown.—Temple of
Apollo, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 1 foot 2J inches. Smith and Porcher, pis. 65, 77,
pp. 42, 93, 109 ; Mansell, No. 1260; Lanciani, Bull, dell' Inst.,
1874, p. Ill ; Marquardt and Mommsen, Rffm. Alterthumer, II.
pt. i., ed. 1877, p. 637 ; Grseco-Roman Guide, I., No. 1. For life of
Cnaeus Lentulus, see Smith's Diet, of Biography. Bernoull
(Roem. Ikonoyrtiphie, I., p. 182) doubts whether the head and base
belong together.

The Nymph Cyrene overcoming a lion by strangling
him. This figure is attired like Diana Venatrix. She
wears a chiton reaching to the knees, with a chlamys
twisted round the waist, and buskins ornamented with
lions' heads. The hair is bound with a diadem, and
gathered into a club behind. She stands with the left
foot advanced, and holds the lion's neck under her
left arm with her hands clasped.—Temple of Apollo,
Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 2 feet 10J inches. Smith and Porcher, p. 99,
No. 6 ; Puckett, Be marmoribus tribus Cyrenaicis, p. 19 ; Greeco-
Roman Guide, II., No. 7 ; Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuaire, II.,
p. 507, No. 2 ; Studniczka, Kyrene, p. 30, fig. 22. For the
legend of Cyrene compare Vol. I., No. 790.

Jupiter Ammon, standing, with his weight on the left
leg. He has long flowing hair and beard, and has ram's
horns at the sides of his head. He wears a mantle which
covers his left side and the lower half of his body, and
sandals. His right hand is broken away; his left is
placed on his hip. On the face are traces of red colour.
Jupiter Ammon, whose chief seat was at Ammonium in
the Libyan desert, appears frequently on the coins of
Cyrene and other towns in the Cyrenaica, and was the
principal deity of Cyrene (compare Pindar, Pyth., iv., 16 ;
L. Miiller, Numism. de I'aneienne Afrique, p. 100). The

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