Note 146 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

The statues on which this description is based are in the Vatican, the Lateran, and the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitol at Rome. The first of these is figured and described in Baumeister’s Denkmäler, i. 130 sq., and the second is described by O. Benndorf and R. Schoene, Die antiken Bildwerke des Lateranischen Museums, pp. 260 sq. See also Roscher’s Lexik. d. griech. und röm. Myth. i. 588 sqq.; S. Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire grecque et romaine, i. pp. 298, 299, 300, 302, ii. pp. 321 sq. Both the Vatican and the Lateran statues have the necklace of acorns, and the Lateran copy (No. 768) has in addition a circlet of acorns hanging on the bosom. The acorns probably refer to the oak-tree under which the Amazons were said to have set up the image of the goddess at Ephesus (Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis, 237 sqq.). The statue in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (No. 47) has serpents twined round the arms. The many breasts of the Ephesian Artemis are mentioned by Minucius Felix (Octavius, xxii. 5). On the worship of the Ephesian Artemis continued as that of the Virgin Mary see Sir W. M. Ramsay, “The Worship of the Virgin Mary at Ephesus,” The Expositor, June 1905, pp. 401 sqq.