Keywords: Thronus Iunonis.gif The following woodcut taken from a fictile vase in the Museo Borbonico at Naples represents Juno seated on a splendid throne which is elevated like those already described on a basement She holds in her left hand a sceptre and in her right the apple which Mercury is about to convey to Paris with a view to the celebrated contest for beauty on Mount Ida Mercury is distinguished by his Talaria his Caduceus and his petasus thrown behind his back and hanging by its string On the right side of the throne is the representation of a tigress or panther http //penelope uchicago edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA /Thronus html J Yates art Thronus in W Smith Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities London 1875 p 1129 1875 PD-old - Thrones Iuno Hermes Talaria 1875 Sitting on throne |