The antiquities of Herculaneum . which was to be carried off [21]. And if the colouring, which appears to be that of flefli rather than of ftone, ftiouldraife any doubt, we may anfwer: that the poet having an eye to the words of Pau-fanias, i. 23. (who calls this Jlatue ap%aiov fyuvov) and to the image being takenand carried on board by Iphigenia alone {Euripides, Ipbig. in Taur. v. 1157, &c.)»mod probably defigned to reprefent it of wood, painted from nature, thus alludingat the fame time to its antiquity ; fince it is well known that the moll ancient imageswere of wood (Paufanias, viii. 16.
The antiquities of Herculaneum . which was to be carried off [21]. And if the colouring, which appears to be that of flefli rather than of ftone, ftiouldraife any doubt, we may anfwer: that the poet having an eye to the words of Pau-fanias, i. 23. (who calls this Jlatue ap%aiov fyuvov) and to the image being takenand carried on board by Iphigenia alone {Euripides, Ipbig. in Taur. v. 1157, &c.)»mod probably defigned to reprefent it of wood, painted from nature, thus alludingat the fame time to its antiquity ; fince it is well known that the moll ancient imageswere of wood (Paufanias, viii. 16. Pliny, xxxiv. 7.), and ufed to be painted (Plu-tarch in Rom.) like our modern wooden, or pafte-board ftatues. In Paufanias, we read of aprieftefs of the Leucippides, who made for one of the two ftatuesa new face inftead of the old one. [21] Of the various traditions related by Paufanias, Servius, and Hyginus, aboutthe ftatue of Diana Taurica, mention flaall be made in the obfervations upon thefollowing plate. PLATE. [ 55 ] PLATE XII. W IF the picture preceding be a reprefentation of Oreftes dif-covered by his fifter, the piece now before us will be acontinuation of it [2], and the explanation of one will con-duce to the illuftration of the other. Euripides, who in hisIphigenia in Tauris [3] has furnifhed us with the fubjecl: of [1] Catalogue, n. 253. [2] Although not found in the fame place, nor at the fame time. [3] Strabo, xii. pag. 537, fays there were fome who related, that the fcene ofthefe adventures ©f Orejles and Iphigenia was the city of Cajlabala, fituated on thefkirts of Mount Taurus in Cappadocia : but this is nothing but a blunder, in takingthe Mount Taurus for the city of Tauris. Between the Pontus Euxinus and thePa/us Maeotis there is a peninfula, called by the Grecians Cherfonefus Tauricus, be-caufe it was inhabited by a people of Scythia called Tauri; who having the barba-rous cuftom of facrificing to the goddefs Diana all the Grangers who by ill fort
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