. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. a6<;, or shrine, containing the imageof the goddess. We enter, and the roof,which is of cedar,^ is supported by a row,on each side of four columns, of greenjasper. Against the walls hang the votiveofferings of the vrorshippers of the god-dess : some the gorgeous presents of kingsand princes, and one the humble psalteryof Alexander the musician of Cythera.In front of us is the altar, rich with thecarvings of Praxiteles,^ and beyond ithangs from the ceiling the purple em-broidered veil screening the image thatall the world worshippeth. The veil israised, a
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. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. a6<;, or shrine, containing the imageof the goddess. We enter, and the roof, which is of cedar, ^ is supported by a row, on each side of four columns, of greenjasper. Against the walls hang the votiveofferings of the vrorshippers of the god-dess : some the gorgeous presents of kingsand princes, and one the humble psalteryof Alexander the musician of Cythera.In front of us is the altar, rich with thecarvings of Praxiteles, ^ and beyond ithangs from the ceiling the purple em-broidered veil screening the image thatall the world worshippeth. The veil israised, and we look on the goddess herself.Can this be Diana, the great goddess ofthe Ephesians ?—a wooden image so time-worn that whether the material be vine, or cedar, or ebony, * the nearest exami-nation cannot discover. In either hand is astaff or trident (see fig. 156, and the coinsante, pp. 321, 323, and post, p. 326), andthe body is covered with paps, the em-blem of prolificness. Mutianus was pro-fane enough to say that the image was. Fig. 156.—/i-om an alabaster image of Diana of Spfusus iti the museum of XapUs. The figure, however. Is lu great measure Ideal, and a much more faithful representation of the (goddess will be found in the coin that lollows. ™ ConTenit tectum ejus esse e cedrinis trabibus.Plin. K. H. xvi. 79. Ephesi in rede simulacrumDianse, etiam lacunaria ex ea [cedro] at ibi atin cfeteris nobilibus fanis propter EEtemitatemsunt facta. Yitruv. ii. 9, 13. * These eight columns were afterwards trans-ported to Constantinople, and may now be seenin the mosque of St. Sophia. Tois 8e okto) irpa-(TLvovs KLOvas Tovs d^ioOav^doTQVs eKOftiaf Ktov-oravTivos arparriyos otto Eae )^opSais, Kui lyyT^patras rij K0C(na)