Editing Telephus (section)

===Suckled by a deer ===
The abandoned Telephus being suckled by a deer was a frequent iconographic motif.<ref>Heres and Strauss, pp. 862&ndash;865, section C. ''Telephos von der Hindin gesäugt'' (Telephus suckled by the hind) ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' Telephos 5&ndash;17, and section D. ''Herakles entdeckt Telephos'' (Heracles discovers Telephus) ''LIMC'' Telephos 18&ndash;42; comprising more than a third of the 101 entries for Telephus in the ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae]]''.</ref> Except for the Telephus frieze, which depicts the abandoned Telephus being suckled by a lioness, every other depiction of this event shows Telephus suckled by a deer.<ref>Heres, pp. 95&ndash;96.</ref> The earliest such representations occur on East-Ionian [[engraved gems]] (c. 480 BC), depicting the infant Telephus keeling or crawling under a standing deer, grasping the deer's teats.<ref>Heres and Strauss, p. 869, ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' 6, 7.</ref> Nearly identical scenes appears on Tegeatic coins from about 370 BC.<ref>Heres and Strauss, p. 869, ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' 8.</ref> Pausanias reports seeing an image of Telephus suckled by a deer on [[Mount Helicon]] in [[Boeotia]].<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.31.2 9.31.2].</ref> Representations showing Heracles finding Telephus with a deer are also frequent from the first century AD. The scene continued to be popular through the third century AD.