DAN MEYER

Copperplates to the First and Second Parts, and List of Illustrations


Kupfertafeln zum ersten und zweiten Theil, und Verzeichniß der Abbildungen.

Tab. I.

  1. Head of Isis, with the hide of a cow and three stars. From the Dactyliotheca Stoschiana, vol. II, tab. 8, no. 42, German translation.
  2. Isis suckling her son. Zoëga, Numi Aegypt. Imperat. tab. X, no. 1.
  3. Isis with the symbols of the four elements. De la Chausse, Museum Romanum, Sect. I, tab. 34.
  4. Isis of Pharos, with the sistrum. Zoëga, Numi Aegypt. Imper. tab. VII, no. 16.
  5. Anubis with Horus and with the water vessel. Dactyl. Stosch. tab. 17, no. 113.
  6. Harpocrates with the whip, sitting on a lotus calyx. Ibid., tab. 15, no. 93.
  7. Harpocrates, with the club, riding on a ram. Zoëga, Numi Aegypt. Imper. tab. IX, no. 4.
  8. Canobus. Ibid., tab. III, no. 5.
  9. Serapis on a throne, with the three-headed animal at his feet. Ibid., tab. XVI, no. 8.
  10. Athor, with the dove, on a coin of Athribis. Ibid., tab. XXI, no. 8.
  11. The Nile, with his attributes, on an Egyptian coin. Ibid., tab. XVI, no. 7.
  12. An upright serpent with ears of grain and poppy heads, the Agathodaemon, on an Egyptian coin. Ibid., tab. II, no. 9.
  13. Sphinx, with many attributes, on an Egyptian coin. Eckhel, Sylloge I Numorum veterum anecdotorum, tab. I, no. 12.a
  14. The Persian man-lion, with wings, in a chalcedony, illustrated in Niebuhr II, tab. XX (after a seal impression of Bishop Münter).
  15. The Egyptian Tau, in a scarab (after a seal impression from the same).

Tab. II.

  1. Female figure, veiled, with a club and with the modius, beside an altar, on an Egyptian-Alexandrian coin. Eckhel, Syllog. I Num. vet. anecdot. tab. VI, no. 16.
  2. Cybele and Attis, relief on an altar. Zoëga, Li Bassirilievi antichi di Roma, tom. I, tab. XIII.
  3. The Etruscan Mercury (Camillus), on a vase. Passeri, Picturae Etruscorum in Vasculis, tom. III, tab. CCXVII.
  4. The Cabiric Ceres and the Dioscuri, with the symbol of the branches, on a coin of Thasos. After Gesner (from the Mus. Haym. II, 106).
  5. Typhon fighting with Diana transformed into a stag. Dactyliotheca Stoschiana, tab. 22, no. 126.
  6. Minerva and the fighting bull, on a silver coin of Thurium. Beger, Thesaurus Brandenb. tom. I, p. 331.

Tab. III.

  1. The bull-sacrifice of Mithras. De la Chausse, Mus. Rom. tom. I, Sect. II, tab. 18.
  2. Deus Lunus, on a coin of Antiochus Epiphanes. Beger, Thesaur. Brand. tom. I, p. 257.
  3. Diana, with sun, moon, and cross, on a gem. Musée Napoléon, by Petit-Radel, tom. IV, pl. LVI, Supplement B, no. 5.
  4. Diana of Ephesus. De la Chausse, Mus. Rom. tom. I, Sect. II, tab. 18.
  5. Old coin of Ephesus, with the bee. Pellerin, Recueil de Médaill. tom. II, p. LV, no. 2.
  6. Venus Urania and the sea-woman (Atergatis), on a coin of Ascalon. Vaillant, Numi graec. Imper. Rom. tab. XIV, no. 9.
  7. Conical idol with two doves and candelabra, on a coin of Cyprus. Ibid., in the appendix, tab. IV, no. 14.
  8. Cybele, veiled; a Cabirus with the zodiacal Capricorn and with the hammer, on a coin of Thessalonica. Beger, Thes. Brand. tom. I, p. 483.
  9. Male figure, with the branch or tree in one hand and bow and arrow in the other. A cricket on an ear of grain. Silver coin of Metapontum, in the collection of Herr von Gerning at Frankfurt am Main.

Tab. IV.

1–3. The twelve chief gods in the old Greek style, from various monuments. After Hirt’s Bilderbuch für Mythologie, Archaeologie und Kunst, I, Einleit. S. III, S. XVI, Text S. 3.
4. Pan with a hare, on a coin of Messana. Eckhel, Syll. I, tab. II, no. 10.
5. Two Nemeses, on a coin of Smyrna. Liebe, Gotha numaria, p. 282. (See above, p. 160 f.)
6. Nemesis, on a coin of Tripolis. Eckhel, Syll. I num. vett. anecdot. tab. 17, no. 3. (See above, p. 161.)

Tab. V.

  1. Saturn with the sickle. Dactylioth. Stosch. tab. 20, no. 6.
  2. Jupiter with the ram’s head, holding the thunderbolt. Ibid., tab. 21, no. 76.
  3. Head of Jupiter as a fly. Ibid., tab. 21, no. 77.
  4. Head of Jupiter. Ibid., tab. 21, no. 27.
  5. Bacchus leading Vulcan into Olympus, on a vase in the Hamilton collection. After Hirt’s Bilderbuch für Mythologie etc., S. 45.
  6. The tripod of Apollo, on an old coin of Croton. Eckhel, Syll. I, num. anecd. tab. I, no. 12.
  7. Female head with a crab, on a coin of the Bruttii. Beger, Thes. Brand. I, p. 340.
  8. Head of Proserpina; Victory erecting a trophy, with the emblem of Sicily, on a coin of Agathocles. Ibid., I, p. 296.
  9. Aesculapius and Telesphorus, on a coin. Eckhel, Anfangsgründe der Numismatik, tab. V, no. 20.
  10. Jupiter of Dodona, on a coin of Halicarnassus. Havercamp, Numophylacium Reginae Christinae, tab. XXVI, no. 2.
  11. Hygiea, beside a male person clad in the toga, who holds a bowl, on a coin of the gens Acilia. Ibid., tab. L, no. 26.

Tab. VI.

  1. The Thracian king Lycurgus, in combat with Bacchus, overcome by the Maenads, with the three Muses according to the oldest tradition, and with several other secondary figures (bas-relief on a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Borghese, and presumably still in Rome). After a drawing by Camuccini, from the papers of Professor Welcker at Giessen, with whose permission we communicate it here, as he had received it in Rome from Zoëga. The explanation follows in the second part, at the Bacchic circle of myths. Zoëga first had this relief drawn and engraved separately, doubtless for his Bassirilievi. So far, however, it has not yet been published.
  2. The Muse Polyhymnia, in a pensive posture, with the inscription ΠΟΛΥΜΝΙΑ ΜΥΘΟΥϹ [“Polyhymnia: myths”], in a Herculanean painting. Pitture d’Ercolano Tom. II, tab. VII.
  3. Venus of Cnidus, on a coin of that city (after the illustration in Levezow on the Medici Venus).
  4. Taras riding on a dolphin, after a coin of Tarentum. Eckhel, Anfangsgründe der Numism. tab. VI, no. 3.
  5. Head of Jupiter Ammon and the silphium plant (Sylphium), on a coin of Cyrene. Ibid., tab. VI, no. 8. (See above, p. 148 f.)
  6. Africa with the elephant’s hide and with the scorpion, along with other attributes. Montfaucon, Antiquité expl. tabul. LXXXXVI, no. 35, German edition. (See above, p. 148 f.)
  7. Modesty, on a coin. Ibid., tab. XL, no. 18. (See above, p. 163 f.)

8–9. The rising and setting Luna, reliefs on the Arch of Constantine. Ibid., tab. LXXXXVI, nos. 30 and 31 (with which, however, the corrections in Hirt’s Bilderbuch S. 38 and tab. V, 3, 7 are to be joined. Compare above, p. 162).

  1. Fortuna, on a gem, after an impression from Bishop Münter.
  2. An owl standing on a vessel, beside it a stag, on a coin of Athens. Eckhel’s Anfangsgründe der Numismatik, tab. VI, no. 5.
  3. Serapis with the heads of the seven planetary gods and with the signs of the zodiac, on an Egyptian coin of Antoninus Pius. Dupuis, Origine de tous les cultes, tab. II, no. 11.

Tab. VII.

  1. Female figure sleeping on a lion’s skin, beside her three sleeping Erotes, and some attributes, on a sepulchral lamp, in Bartoli and Bellori, Le antiche Lucerne sepolcrali figurate, Parte I, tab. 8.
  2. The Good Shepherd, with several secondary figures and symbols, on a Christian sepulchral lamp. Ibid., Parte III, tab. 29.
  3. Skull with a butterfly and water jug, on a gem, after an impression from Bishop Münter.
  4. Abraxas, after an impression from the same. (See above, p. 242 f.)
  5. The fishes with the anchor (a Christian sign of recognition) in a seal ring, after an impression from the same. (See above, p. 241 f.) Gem with two fishes and the anchor. Legend: ΙΗϹΟΥ [“of Jesus”] (so it must be read; by an oversight the last of these letters, as well as their arrangement, has become unfaithful to the original). See above, p. 241 f. Compare the just-published Friderici Münteri Epistola ad Jacobum Axelium Lindblom de duobus monumentis veteris ecclesiae, Copenhagen 1810, p. 3 seqq., where this Christian symbol is learnedly explained.

Darmstadt, printed with Stahl’s types.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES

  1. a.

    So printed. In note (20) to Book Two the same coin is cited from Eckhel’s Sylloge as Tab. VI, No. 15. The list’s figure is kept. [Tr.]

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