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Pliny refers to Numa as frequently practicing the rite of expiating lightning when discussing the monstrum, Olta. Working with the assumption that Faunus once possessed a lupine aspect and that it is during the Augustan period that his depiction in art has completed its iconographical shift, this narrative can be applied to the scene on the cinerary urns. As indicated by iconographical elements that match the narrative from the Fasti, the urns capture one moment of Numa’s story in which the god Faunus struggles to break free of his chains. The relevant passage is as follows. “…But Picus and Faunus, both gods of Roman soil, Will be able to relate the rite of purification, but They will not tell without coercion, use chains to bind them as captives.” Thus Egeria taught Numa by what trick they would be able to seize the gods. There is a grove dark with the shade of holm-oaks under the Aventine, Where you are able to say, on sight, “There is a divinity here.” Grass is in the middle, and covered by green moss, A cleft in the rock pours out a never-ending stream: There Faunus and Picus were accustomed to drink alone. King Numa came here and sacrificed a sheep at the spring, And put out cups full of fragrant wine, And when he did this, he hid himself in a cave. The forest gods come to their accustomed spring And they relieve their dry throats with much pure wine. Sleep followed the wine, and Numa came forth from the icy cave And he put chains on the sleeping ones’ hands. As sleep left them, they tried to break the chains with a struggle. The chains held the warring gods all the stronger. Then Numa spoke, “Gods of the forest, forgive my deeds. If you know wickedness is absent from my mind, And show me how a thunderbolt can be expiated.” 340 Numerous narrative elements from this myth can be compared to parts of the scene on the urns. The first is that the wolf-headed figure rises out of what seems to be a well. The scene in 340 Ov. Fas. 3.291-311. Latin Text taken from Ovid Fasti, Vol. 5, edited by G.P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard <strong>University</strong> Press, 1996, p. 140, 142. (Translation by Author.) sed poterunt ritum Picus Faunusque piandi / tradere, Romani numen utrumque soli. / nec sine vi tradent: adhibe tu vincula captis.” / atque ita qua possint edidit arte capi. / lucus Aventino suberat niger ilicis umbra, / quo posses viso dicere “numen inest.” / in medio gramen, muscoque adoperta virenti / manabat saxo vena perennis aquae: / inde fere soli Faunus Picusque bibebant. / huc venit et fonti rex Numa mactat ovem, / plenaque odorati disponit pocula Bacchi, / cumque suis antro conditus ipse latet. / ad solitos veniunt silvestria numina fontes / et relevant multo pectora sicca mero. / vina quies sequitur; gelido Numa prodit ab antro / vinclaque sopitas addit in arta manus. / somnus ut abscessit, pugnando vincula temptant / rumpere: pugnantes fortius illa tenent. /tum Numa: “di nemorum, factis ignoscite nostris / si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo, / quoque modo possit fulmen monstrate piari.” 69
Ovid takes place at a water source or spring (perennis aquae). 341 Previous interpretations of this scene have labeled this stone ring a gate to the underworld. This interpretation is not in conflict with the lupine iconography of a chthonic Faunus since the Lupercal, as mentioned earlier, was considered to be a gate to the underworld. 342 A kingly figure stands above the wolf-man emptying a patera, possibly an offering of wine, over the divinity. 343 Instead of the sacrifice of a sheep and the setting out of wine in bowls (rex Numa mactat ovem / plenaque odorati disponit pocula Bacchi), 344 which is present in Ovid, we are shown a libation that is perhaps made as a preparation for sacrifice. In either case, the kingly figure may be Ovid’s Numa with his followers (cum suis). 345 One of the most important details in Ovid’s account for my interpretation is that when Faunus awakens, he is chained and attempts to gain his freedom through combat (somnus ut abcessit, pugnando vincula temptant / rumpere: pugnantes fortius illa tenent). 346 On the urns, as Faunus attacks one of Numa’s men, he is restrained by the others who hold tight to his chains and/or is bound to the well to hamper his movement. 347 In some instances, one of the men has been slain, and this may account for the presence of Vanth. As mentioned earlier, Etruscan artists were wont to insert Vanth into scenes in which someone had died or was bound to die. Her appearance on a vessel containing the ashes of the dead should not surprise anyone even if she is not present in Ovid’s narrative. Obviously, there are some differences between the account given by Ovid and the scene depicted on the urns. As mentioned earlier, by the time of Ovid, Faunus had already been syncretized with Pan, the goat-man. In Ovid’s account, Faunus is described as shaking his horns (quatiens cornua). 348 Also, there is no Picus present in the scene on the urns. 349 However, 341 Ov. Fas. 3.298. 342 Brunn and Körte 1872-1916, 21. 343 The elements of a kingly figure visiting a prophetic god at a water-source located in the deepest woods with a chthonic connection appear in Verg. Aen.VII.80-6 when Latinus visits Faunus at a spring from which dark vapors rise out of the earth. Vapors do seem to be a common component of oracle myths as they may have been the source of the prophetic powers of the Delphic oracle. 344 Ov. Fas. 3.300. 345 Ov. Fas. 3.302. 346 Ov. Fas. 3.307-8. 347 The motif of capturing or binding a prophet to obtain his secrets occurs in literature and art. An Etruscan mirror in the British Museum showing a scene from the myths of the Vipenas brothers depicts them capturing the seer Cacu, and, in Virgil’s Eclogues, the woodland god Silenus, a figure remarkably similar to Faunus, is chained with wreaths of flowers to coerce song from him. adgressi - nam saepe senex spe carminis ambo / luserat – inciunt ipsis ex vincula sertis. (Verg., Ecl. VI.18-9). 348 Ov. Fas. 3.312. 70
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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEG
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This work is dedicated to my loving
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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures v
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Fig. II.8. Rear Wall of the Tomb of
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ABSTRACT This dissertation is an in
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physiognomy was discovered at Hohle
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or for the death of someone else, w
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left with an incomplete appraisal o
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presentation of the Battle of Actiu
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are more distinct mirrors by the na
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its prerogatives and its essence ar
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In general, theriomorphic and theri
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votive 592 (Fig. VI.7) and decorati
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labeled, These, the Etruscan Theseu
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image was also used as an indicator
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Felton, D. 1999. Haunted Greece and
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