PLATE XLII
Artemis
No inscription is needed to mark this statue as that of the "Lady of the Beasts." On her head rests an elaborate crown on the top of which is a perforated border of animal figures, while the band passing obliquely over her breast is ornamented with a somewhat similar design in relief. As the goddess steps slowly forward she allows a playful fawn to suck the fingers of her right hand. From a Roman copy of a Greek type of the fifth century b.c., in Munich (Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur, No. 562).
