| COIN OF PAPHOS, CYPRUS. | COIN OF IULIA GORDUS, LYDIA. |
At the dawn of the historic age the oldest Greek statues and paintings of Venus show her fully robed and draped. Great numbers of Aphrodite amulets of small size and made of glazed terra-cotta have been found mainly on the Ægean islands where her cult had spread from Babylon and Syria. They resemble the Babylonian Beltis statuettes in having
THE DIANA OF EPHESUS IN THE VATICAN.
After a photograph.
THE DIANA OF EPHESUS.
Alabaster statue now in the museum of Naples. (Roscher, Lex., I, col. 588.)