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An excellent decorative Inca Urpus. Full human head over vase body. Red painted face with black eyes and bob haircut. Nose and ear ornaments. The back of the upper vessel comes to a point. Possibly representing a hunch-backed male. Sculpted low relief arms reaching out to front on upper chamber. Standard side strap handles mid torso with pointed bottom. Great rich original paint with decorated tocapu style designs over shoulders.
Peru, Late Horizon, 1476-1534 AD
Measures 11" /27.94 cm in height.
Galeriacontici.net
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This is near the place where Emperor Diocletian was born. A priest in the 18th century (I think) did some archeology in the area and created a garden using some of the architectural fragments. Not exactly modern archeological practice, but it is a lovely place.
The Lamassu guarded Nergal Gate at the entrance to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, near modern-day Mosul, Iraq, in c 700 B.C. until 2015 when it was destroyed by ISIS. It was recreated by MIchael Rakowitz as part of a project to recreate over 7,000 archaeological artefacts looted from the Iraq Museum during the war or destroyed elsewhere. It was unveiled by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, on 28 March 2018.
Rebuilding the Lamassu means it can symbolically continue as guardian of a city's past, present and future. The inscription written on the Lamassu reads:
"Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, had the inner and outer wall of Nineveh built anew and raised as high as mountains."
Horus giving eternal life to the Pharaoh Ramses II. The touching of the mouth with the sign of Ankh, the cross with a loop on top.
King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
From the exhibition at the California Science Center
Los Angeles, California
For more information, see:
californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/king-tut-treasures-o...
California Science Center:
Tutankhamun (Wikipedia):
Found on Milos. 120 - 100 B.C.
Poseidon is the violent and ill-tempered god of the sea. One of the Twelve Olympians, he was also feared as the provoker of earthquakes and worshipped as the creator of the horse. A hot-blooded deity, Poseidon had many disputes with both gods and men, most famously with Athena and Odysseus.
National Archaeological Museum
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King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
From the exhibition at the California Science Center
Los Angeles, California
For more information, see:
californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/king-tut-treasures-o...
California Science Center:
Tutankhamun (Wikipedia):
King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
From the exhibition at the California Science Center
Los Angeles, California
For more information, see:
californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/king-tut-treasures-o...
California Science Center:
Tutankhamun (Wikipedia):
Please refer to the letter that I wrote to Mr. Robert Pearson.
Hi Bob and list members,
It is a replica of one of Korean national heritage. So nicely crafted I like it very much.
If I remember it right its original version was an archaeological find from Baekje, Korea.
Historically Baekje regime maintained strong ties with China.
This was probably also true in case of its relation with Japan.
I wonder if Baekje for a long time in history served as stepping stone for immigrants who migrated from ancient China to and return from Korea or Chinese migration to Japan by way of Baekje. May be Korean and Japanese historians could get the answer right with much less effort than I do once they looked objectively into the historical record concerned.
For further discussion I have just uploaded a few images to the folder entitled by “Horseman Linking Ancient China and Korean Peninsula”. The titles of images are as followings.
Horseman front view .jpg
Horseman side view. Jpg
Horseman with Gyeongju National Museum. jpg
Horseman with traces of Han dynasty style green glaze still there near its toes. jpg
Horseman with traces of white slips. jpg
Horseman with U shape oil lamp of China origin. jpg
Statue oil lamp trimmed in Han dynasty style. jpg
Please note these artifacts are of China origin unless described otherwise. As you may find that at least two of them were in existence separately both in ancient China and Korean peninsula. The very origin of them all should be China. This is so because China presents far more varieties while the counter part in Korean peninsula could not. Yes, I have more evidence to support my views.
The vessel that the horse carries on top of its hip is depicting an oil lamp.
Just look at the images in the said folder and you would agree why I am so sure about that it is an oil lamp.
I hope some Korean artifacts enthusiasts out there would tell us how Korean archaeologists described that very vessel.
I guess the true story behind what I termed “Horseman Oil Lamps” was lost after the fate of Baekje regime ended after Shilla regime unified ancient Korean peninsula.
But I would try to hypothesize my part of views anyway.
Artifacts are like time capsules. With their help recapture of ancient rituals are possible.
I would visualize that in real life ancient Chinese shaman would perform his role as a guide for the spirit of the deceased. By ridding on horse back and led the funeral parade to the tombs yard he would act as though he is leading the spirit of the deceased simultaneously.
A horse wearing a protective “robe” implies that the deceased might have being killed in the war.
For the deceased non-combatant there would be no need for the horse to wear the protective war robe.
In all cases the artifacts could well be ceremonial oil lamps that went with the dead. And they served two purposes.
One of them was to express the wish for the deceased to keep marching following the spirit guide on horseback until they met and joined respectively with their ancestors, i.e. under ground at the burial sites.
In real life funeral proceedings oil lamps are there to symbolize the way to the grave yard had been lightened.
Likewise, the artifact itself was expected to lighten the way in the after lives of the deceased.
The sharpened posts affixed in front of the horse chests are there to fend off bad spirits both during funeral parade and in their after lives under ground.
What about the plate from which the spirit guide, i.e., horse man, seem to be reading, proudly out loud, maybe?
Well, the plate might bear with imagery scripts pronouncing the marvelous achievement recorded during the military career of the deceased hero.
Both of ancient Baekje Koreans and Chinese shared same religious rituals. Isn’t it fascinating?
How do contemporary Korean archaeologists interpret these artifacts? I wonder.
Thank you for asking. You make me think deeper into it.
Happy New Year of Horse!
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Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshiped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patron of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, as well as listening to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers. Isis is the Goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility.
The goddess Isis (the mother of Horus) was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky, and was born on the fourth intercalary day. At some time Isis and Hathor had the same headdress. In later myths about Isis, she had a brother, Osiris, who became her husband, and she then was said to have conceived Horus. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Set. Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Set.This myth became very important in later Egyptian religious beliefs.
Isis is also known as the goddess of simplicity, protector of the dead and goddess of children from whom all beginnings arose. In later myths, the Ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris. This occurrence of his death and rebirth was relived each year through rituals. The worship of Isis eventually spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, continuing until the suppression of paganism in the Christian era.
//WIKIPEDIA
Please refer to the letter that I wrote to Mr. Robert Pearson.
Hi Bob and list members,
It is a replica of one of Korean national heritage. So nicely crafted I like it very much.
If I remember it right its original version was an archaeological find from Baekje, Korea.
Historically Baekje regime maintained strong ties with China.
This was probably also true in case of its relation with Japan.
I wonder if Baekje for a long time in history served as stepping stone for immigrants who migrated from ancient China to and return from Korea or Chinese migration to Japan by way of Baekje. May be Korean and Japanese historians could get the answer right with much less effort than I do once they looked objectively into the historical record concerned.
For further discussion I have just uploaded a few images to the folder entitled by “Horseman Linking Ancient China and Korean Peninsula”. The titles of images are as followings.
Horseman front view .jpg
Horseman side view. Jpg
Horseman with Gyeongju National Museum. jpg
Horseman with traces of Han dynasty style green glaze still there near its toes. jpg
Horseman with traces of white slips. jpg
Horseman with U shape oil lamp of China origin. jpg
Statue oil lamp trimmed in Han dynasty style. jpg
Please note these artifacts are of China origin unless described otherwise. As you may find that at least two of them were in existence separately both in ancient China and Korean peninsula. The very origin of them all should be China. This is so because China presents far more varieties while the counter part in Korean peninsula could not. Yes, I have more evidence to support my views.
The vessel that the horse carries on top of its hip is depicting an oil lamp.
Just look at the images in the said folder and you would agree why I am so sure about that it is an oil lamp.
I hope some Korean artifacts enthusiasts out there would tell us how Korean archaeologists described that very vessel.
I guess the true story behind what I termed “Horseman Oil Lamps” was lost after the fate of Baekje regime ended after Shilla regime unified ancient Korean peninsula.
But I would try to hypothesize my part of views anyway.
Artifacts are like time capsules. With their help recapture of ancient rituals are possible.
I would visualize that in real life ancient Chinese shaman would perform his role as a guide for the spirit of the deceased. By ridding on horse back and led the funeral parade to the tombs yard he would act as though he is leading the spirit of the deceased simultaneously.
A horse wearing a protective “robe” implies that the deceased might have being killed in the war.
For the deceased non-combatant there would be no need for the horse to wear the protective war robe.
In all cases the artifacts could well be ceremonial oil lamps that went with the dead. And they served two purposes.
One of them was to express the wish for the deceased to keep marching following the spirit guide on horseback until they met and joined respectively with their ancestors, i.e. under ground at the burial sites.
In real life funeral proceedings oil lamps are there to symbolize the way to the grave yard had been lightened.
Likewise, the artifact itself was expected to lighten the way in the after lives of the deceased.
The sharpened posts affixed in front of the horse chests are there to fend off bad spirits both during funeral parade and in their after lives under ground.
What about the plate from which the spirit guide, i.e., horse man, seem to be reading, proudly out loud, maybe?
Well, the plate might bear with imagery scripts pronouncing the marvelous achievement recorded during the military career of the deceased hero.
Both of ancient Baekje Koreans and Chinese shared same religious rituals. Isn’t it fascinating?
How do contemporary Korean archaeologists interpret these artifacts? I wonder.
Thank you for asking. You make me think deeper into it.
Happy New Year of Horse!
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Ancientartifacts/photos/album...
Please refer to the letter that I wrote to Mr. Robert Pearson.
Hi Bob and list members,
It is a replica of one of Korean national heritage. So nicely crafted I like it very much.
If I remember it right its original version was an archaeological find from Baekje, Korea.
Historically Baekje regime maintained strong ties with China.
This was probably also true in case of its relation with Japan.
I wonder if Baekje for a long time in history served as stepping stone for immigrants who migrated from ancient China to and return from Korea or Chinese migration to Japan by way of Baekje. May be Korean and Japanese historians could get the answer right with much less effort than I do once they looked objectively into the historical record concerned.
For further discussion I have just uploaded a few images to the folder entitled by “Horseman Linking Ancient China and Korean Peninsula”. The titles of images are as followings.
Horseman front view .jpg
Horseman side view. Jpg
Horseman with Gyeongju National Museum. jpg
Horseman with traces of Han dynasty style green glaze still there near its toes. jpg
Horseman with traces of white slips. jpg
Horseman with U shape oil lamp of China origin. jpg
Statue oil lamp trimmed in Han dynasty style. jpg
Please note these artifacts are of China origin unless described otherwise. As you may find that at least two of them were in existence separately both in ancient China and Korean peninsula. The very origin of them all should be China. This is so because China presents far more varieties while the counter part in Korean peninsula could not. Yes, I have more evidence to support my views.
The vessel that the horse carries on top of its hip is depicting an oil lamp.
Just look at the images in the said folder and you would agree why I am so sure about that it is an oil lamp.
I hope some Korean artifacts enthusiasts out there would tell us how Korean archaeologists described that very vessel.
I guess the true story behind what I termed “Horseman Oil Lamps” was lost after the fate of Baekje regime ended after Shilla regime unified ancient Korean peninsula.
But I would try to hypothesize my part of views anyway.
Artifacts are like time capsules. With their help recapture of ancient rituals are possible.
I would visualize that in real life ancient Chinese shaman would perform his role as a guide for the spirit of the deceased. By ridding on horse back and led the funeral parade to the tombs yard he would act as though he is leading the spirit of the deceased simultaneously.
A horse wearing a protective “robe” implies that the deceased might have being killed in the war.
For the deceased non-combatant there would be no need for the horse to wear the protective war robe.
In all cases the artifacts could well be ceremonial oil lamps that went with the dead. And they served two purposes.
One of them was to express the wish for the deceased to keep marching following the spirit guide on horseback until they met and joined respectively with their ancestors, i.e. under ground at the burial sites.
In real life funeral proceedings oil lamps are there to symbolize the way to the grave yard had been lightened.
Likewise, the artifact itself was expected to lighten the way in the after lives of the deceased.
The sharpened posts affixed in front of the horse chests are there to fend off bad spirits both during funeral parade and in their after lives under ground.
What about the plate from which the spirit guide, i.e., horse man, seem to be reading, proudly out loud, maybe?
Well, the plate might bear with imagery scripts pronouncing the marvelous achievement recorded during the military career of the deceased hero.
Both of ancient Baekje Koreans and Chinese shared same religious rituals. Isn’t it fascinating?
How do contemporary Korean archaeologists interpret these artifacts? I wonder.
Thank you for asking. You make me think deeper into it.
Happy New Year of Horse!
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Ancientartifacts/photos/album...
Rama with Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman
Tiruvalangadu, Mayavaram Taluk, Thanjavur District.
Rama Height 3'.5"; Sita Height 3'; Lakshmana Height 3'1"; Hanuman Height 2'4". About 12th Century AD.
Rama stands on a Padmasana in tribhanga posture wearing Kirita makuta, siraschakra and all other ornaments. The hands are held in the posture of holding a bow in the left hand and an arrow in the right hand. Lakshmana in all respects is similar to Rama but he wears jatamakuta. Sita is seen standing on a padmasana in the tribhanga posture. Her right hand is in lola posture and her left hand is in kataka pose. She also wears jatamakuta, haras, valayas, channavira, waistband etc. Siraschakra is present. Hanuman stands on a padmasana wearing jatamakuta. He has udarabandha. His hands are held in the usual supplicating manner.
William Kellie Smith was from a village in Scotland known as Kellas. In 1890, at the age of 20, he arrived in the then undeveloped Malaya. Here, he met an estate owner called Alma Baker, who had won concessions from the state government to clear 360 hectares of forests in Perak. With the substantial profits made from his business venture with Alma Baker, Smith started planting rubber trees and dabbled in the tin mining industry. In time, he became the owner of Kinta Kellas Estate and the Kinta Kellas Tin Dredging Company.
Now with his fortune made, he returned home to marry his Scottish sweetheart, Agnes, and brought her over to Malaysia in 1903. The following year, the couple was blessed with a daughter whom they named Helen. For many years after that, Agnes tried to conceive, but to no avail. William Smith desperately wanted a son and heir to take over his empire in the Malay peninsula. After many years, Agnes finally gave birth to a son, Anthony, in 1915. The birth of his child was the start of even greater success for William Smith. To celebrate Anthony's birth, William Smith decided to expand on his mansion. Smith started planning for a huge castle which he planned to call Kellas House, after his hometown in Scotland.
Unfortunately for Smith, tragedies struck soon after the construction of the Kellas House began. A virulent strain of the Spanish flu spread from Europe to Asia soon after World War I ended in Europe, killing many of the workers in the Kellas Estate. Another seventy workers constructing Smith's dream castle also became victims of the flu. Smith, who had already spent a fortune on his house, lost a lot of money because of this.
In the end, Kellas House, later known as Kellie's Castle, Kellie's Folly or Kellie's Castle, was sold to a British company called Harrisons and Crosfield.
Descendants of the Tamil labourers brought over to Malaya to work on the mansion still live nearby even now. Kellie's Castle is now a popular local tourist attraction and was used as a setting in the 1999 film Anna and the King.
-Wikipedia
The Djed symbol is a pillar-like ancient Egyptian symbol representing stability. It has been interpreted as the backbone of the Egyptian god Osiris, especially in the form Banebdjedet (the ba of the lord of the Djedet). Djedu is the Egyptian name for Busiris, a centre of the cult of Osiris. During the Renewal Festival, the djed would be ceremonially raised as a phallic symbol symbolising the "potency and duration of the pharaoh's rule". It has been compared to the Sumerian concept of temen. The hieroglyph for "djed" may have given rise to the letter Samekh.
Ptah, and Tatenen, are also sometimes referred to as the noble Djed.
/WIKIPEDIA
Please refer to the letter that I wrote to Mr. Robert Pearson.
Hi Bob and list members,
It is a replica of one of Korean national heritage. So nicely crafted I like it very much.
If I remember it right its original version was an archaeological find from Baekje, Korea.
Historically Baekje regime maintained strong ties with China.
This was probably also true in case of its relation with Japan.
I wonder if Baekje for a long time in history served as stepping stone for immigrants who migrated from ancient China to and return from Korea or Chinese migration to Japan by way of Baekje. May be Korean and Japanese historians could get the answer right with much less effort than I do once they looked objectively into the historical record concerned.
For further discussion I have just uploaded a few images to the folder entitled by “Horseman Linking Ancient China and Korean Peninsula”. The titles of images are as followings.
Horseman front view .jpg
Horseman side view. Jpg
Horseman with Gyeongju National Museum. jpg
Horseman with traces of Han dynasty style green glaze still there near its toes. jpg
Horseman with traces of white slips. jpg
Horseman with U shape oil lamp of China origin. jpg
Statue oil lamp trimmed in Han dynasty style. jpg
Please note these artifacts are of China origin unless described otherwise. As you may find that at least two of them were in existence separately both in ancient China and Korean peninsula. The very origin of them all should be China. This is so because China presents far more varieties while the counter part in Korean peninsula could not. Yes, I have more evidence to support my views.
The vessel that the horse carries on top of its hip is depicting an oil lamp.
Just look at the images in the said folder and you would agree why I am so sure about that it is an oil lamp.
I hope some Korean artifacts enthusiasts out there would tell us how Korean archaeologists described that very vessel.
I guess the true story behind what I termed “Horseman Oil Lamps” was lost after the fate of Baekje regime ended after Shilla regime unified ancient Korean peninsula.
But I would try to hypothesize my part of views anyway.
Artifacts are like time capsules. With their help recapture of ancient rituals are possible.
I would visualize that in real life ancient Chinese shaman would perform his role as a guide for the spirit of the deceased. By ridding on horse back and led the funeral parade to the tombs yard he would act as though he is leading the spirit of the deceased simultaneously.
A horse wearing a protective “robe” implies that the deceased might have being killed in the war.
For the deceased non-combatant there would be no need for the horse to wear the protective war robe.
In all cases the artifacts could well be ceremonial oil lamps that went with the dead. And they served two purposes.
One of them was to express the wish for the deceased to keep marching following the spirit guide on horseback until they met and joined respectively with their ancestors, i.e. under ground at the burial sites.
In real life funeral proceedings oil lamps are there to symbolize the way to the grave yard had been lightened.
Likewise, the artifact itself was expected to lighten the way in the after lives of the deceased.
The sharpened posts affixed in front of the horse chests are there to fend off bad spirits both during funeral parade and in their after lives under ground.
What about the plate from which the spirit guide, i.e., horse man, seem to be reading, proudly out loud, maybe?
Well, the plate might bear with imagery scripts pronouncing the marvelous achievement recorded during the military career of the deceased hero.
Both of ancient Baekje Koreans and Chinese shared same religious rituals. Isn’t it fascinating?
How do contemporary Korean archaeologists interpret these artifacts? I wonder.
Thank you for asking. You make me think deeper into it.
Happy New Year of Horse!
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Ancientartifacts/photos/album...
Carved Lapis Lazuli stone with a polished surface, some traces of a dirt patina. Depicts the head of a person with lotus shape headdress. Fine detailing and comes mounted on a base. Egypto-Roman.
William Kellie Smith was from a village in Scotland known as Kellas. In 1890, at the age of 20, he arrived in the then undeveloped Malaya. Here, he met an estate owner called Alma Baker, who had won concessions from the state government to clear 360 hectares of forests in Perak. With the substantial profits made from his business venture with Alma Baker, Smith started planting rubber trees and dabbled in the tin mining industry. In time, he became the owner of Kinta Kellas Estate and the Kinta Kellas Tin Dredging Company.
Now with his fortune made, he returned home to marry his Scottish sweetheart, Agnes, and brought her over to Malaysia in 1903. The following year, the couple was blessed with a daughter whom they named Helen. For many years after that, Agnes tried to conceive, but to no avail. William Smith desperately wanted a son and heir to take over his empire in the Malay peninsula. After many years, Agnes finally gave birth to a son, Anthony, in 1915. The birth of his child was the start of even greater success for William Smith. To celebrate Anthony's birth, William Smith decided to expand on his mansion. Smith started planning for a huge castle which he planned to call Kellas House, after his hometown in Scotland.
Unfortunately for Smith, tragedies struck soon after the construction of the Kellas House began. A virulent strain of the Spanish flu spread from Europe to Asia soon after World War I ended in Europe, killing many of the workers in the Kellas Estate. Another seventy workers constructing Smith's dream castle also became victims of the flu. Smith, who had already spent a fortune on his house, lost a lot of money because of this.
In the end, Kellas House, later known as Kellie's Castle, Kellie's Folly or Kellie's Castle, was sold to a British company called Harrisons and Crosfield.
Descendants of the Tamil labourers brought over to Malaya to work on the mansion still live nearby even now. Kellie's Castle is now a popular local tourist attraction and was used as a setting in the 1999 film Anna and the King.
-Wikipedia
Sarcophagus lid with Hercules as a boy holding vessel and club, Marble, Roman, 2nd Century A.D, 200 x 610 x 250 mm, Good condition, Ex Sotheby's
Heracles, Greek Herakles, Roman Hercules, one of the most famous Greco-Roman legendary heroes. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (see Amphitryon), granddaughter of Perseus. Zeus swore that the next son born of the Perseid house should become ruler of Greece, but—by a trick of Zeus’s jealous wife, Hera—another child, the sickly Eurystheus, was born first and became king. When Heracles grew up, he had to serve Eurystheus and also suffer the vengeful persecution of Hera; his first exploit was the strangling of two serpents that she had sent to kill him in his cradle.
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Yes, yes, it's Doguumon/Shakoumon, the Digimon. But ignore that for a second:
Doguu are a particular type of clay figure produced during Japan's Jomon period (14,000-400 BC), waaay back in the annals of prehistory. They are strange, strange little sacred objects, often used as proof of the "ancient aliens" theory... though they were probably just fertility goddess statues.
The beautiful Nefertari, wife to Ramses the Great, he who built huge monuments of himself in Abu Simbel and Ramasseum in Luxor. Amazing that this pharaoh could reach the high age of 90 when usualy most egyptians in those days only lived until they reached the age of 40 or so. No wonder they thought he was immortal...
Statuette of Aphrodite / Venus, Marble, Roman, Egypt, 2nd Century A.D, 358 mm x 125 mm x 70 mm
Venus had no worship in Rome in early times, as the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BCE) shows, attesting that he could find no mention of her name in old records. This is corroborated by the absence of any festival for her in the oldest Roman calendar and by her lack of a flamen (special priest). Her cult among the Latins, however, seems to be immemorial, for she had apparently at least two ancient temples, one at Lavinium, the other at Ardea, at which festivals of the Latin cities were held. Hence, it was no long step to bring her to Rome, apparently from Ardea itself. But how she came to be identified with so important a deity as Aphrodite remains a puzzle.
During Hannibal’s invasion of Italy in 204 BC, the Romans followed a Sibylline prophecy that the enemy could be expelled and conquered if the “Idaean Mother” were brought to Rome, together with her sacred symbol, a small stone reputed to have fallen from the heavens. Her identification by the Romans with the goddesses Maia, Ops, Rhea, Tellus, and Ceres contributed to the establishment of her worship on a firm footing. By the end of the Roman Republic it had attained prominence, and under the empire it became one of the most important cults in the Roman world.
That Venus’s identification with Aphrodite took place fairly early is certain. A contributory reason for it is perhaps the date (August 19) of the foundation of one of her Roman temples. August 19 is the Vinalia Rustica, a festival of Jupiter. Hence, he and Venus came to be associated, and this facilitated their equation, as father and daughter, with the Greek deities Zeus and Aphrodite. She was, therefore, also a daughter of Dione, was the wife of Vulcan, and was the mother of Cupid.
The importance of the worship of Venus-Aphrodite was increased by the political ambitions of the gens Iulia, the clan of Julius Caesar and, by adoption, of Augustus. They claimed descent from Iulus, the son of Aeneas; Aeneas was the alleged founder of the temple of Eryx and, in some legends, of the city of Rome also. From the time of Homer onward, he was made the son of Aphrodite, so that his descent gave the Iulii divine origin.
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