Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman.

  • John Yonge Akerman
Date:
1841
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Credit: Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 an account of the statue, but it is not satisfactory. Vitru- J J vius 27 says, it was formed of cedar; while from Xenophon 28 we gather, that it was of gold; hence it may be inferred, that both these materials were used in its fabrication : that the bulk of the image was of wood, plated with gold, and the hands and face painted or plated with ivory, like the statues of other divinities mentioned by Pausanias. Thq private worship rendered to Diana, seems to explain the meaning of the “ shrines ” which Demetrius made: there can be little doubt but that they were representations of the god¬ dess and her temple, and that they were kept in the houses of the devout, as Penates: hence the alarm among the silversmiths of Ephesus, when their profitable trade was threatened by the apostle, and the artful speech of the crafty Demetrius, to whose conduct the remark of Epic¬ tetus o7rou to ovfxcpipov ekei koX to evcrej3ec, as noticed by the learned Witsius,29 may be appropriately applied. The statue of Diana at Ephesus, was preserved by the applica¬ tion of resinous gums, which were inserted in cavities made for that purpose, a practice alluded to by Pliny as well as by Vitruvius.30 27 De Architectura, lib. ii. c. 9. 28 De Exped. Cyri., lib. v. 29 Meletemata Leidensia, p. 82. 30 Item cedrus et juniperus easdem habent virtutes et militates, sed quemadmodum ex cupressu et pinu resina, sic ex cedro oleum, quod cedrium dicitur nascitur, quo reliquae res cum sunt unetae (uti etiam libri) a tineis et a earie non laeduntur. Arboris autem ejus sunt similes cupressaa foliaturae; materies vena directa. Ephesi in aede, simulacrum Dianae et etiam lacunara ex ea, et ibi et in caeteris nobilibus fanis propter aeternitatem sunt facta.—Be
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