The following sculptures, Nos. 135-139, were excavated at Selinus in 1823 by the architects William Harris and Samuel Angell. They are divided into two series, derived from different temples.
Selinus, a colony of Megara, in the south-west of Sicily, was founded about 628 b.c. The temple (commonly known as C), from which the sculptures, Nos. 135-137, were obtained, is the oldest temple on the Acropolis, and it is therefore probable that its construction was begun not long after the foundation of the city. The earlier sculptures are therefore assigned to the beginning of the sixth century b.c.
The second series, Nos. 138-139, were obtained from the temple commonly known as F. This is the third or youngest temple in the group shown by architectural evidence to be the oldest. An exact date cannot be assigned, but the sculptures probably belong to the close of the sixth century. The originals, which are made of a coarse limestone, are preserved in the Museum at Palermo.
The metopes were drawn on their discovery by William Harris. Harris died of malarial fever contracted at Selinus, and the work was published by Angell and Evans, Sculptured Metopes ... of Selinus, 1826. For further literature, see Benndorf, Die Metopen von Selinunt.
135.Cast of a metope, from the oldest temple at Selinus. Perseus slaying Medusa in the presence of Athenè. Perseus holds the hair of the Gorgon in his left hand, and cuts off her head with his sword. Athenè stands on the left. The Gorgon is represented as embracing the winged horse, Pegasos, who sprang from her spilt blood.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 7; Benndorf, p. 44, pl. 1; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed. I., p. 80, fig. 5; Wolters, No. 149.
136.Cast of a metope from the oldest temple at Selinus. Heracles carrying the robbers named Kerkopes, with their legs tied to the ends of his bow, or of a yoke.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 8; Benndorf, p. 45, pl. 2; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd edit., I., p. 80, fig. 5; Wolters, No. 150.
137.Cast of a metope from the oldest temple at Selinus. A figure drives a quadriga to the front; two figures are standing to the front, one at each side of the chariot.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 6; Benndorf, p. 47, pl. 3; Wolters, No. 151.
138.Cast of a fragment of a metope from the third temple at Selinus, in which a goddess, probably Athenè, moves to the right, treading down a prostrate giant. This metope was formed of two slabs, of which the upper is wanting.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 4 (incomplete); Benndorf, p. 50, pl. 5; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 158, fig. 30b.
139.Cast of a metope from the third temple at Selinus. A draped male figure, apparently Dionysos, is engaged in combat with an armed giant, who has sunk on his right knee.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 3; Benndorf, p. 52, pl. 6; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 158, fig. 30a; Wolters, No. 152.
150.Female (?) head. The hair, which is bound by a narrow band, falls in large waves on each side of the forehead to the ears, and thence to the shoulders. At the back, the hair is rendered by conventional undulations, parallel to the band.—Athens (?). Elgin Coll.
Marble; height, 8½ inches. Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 40, fig. 4; Synopsis, No. 251 (115); Ellis, Elgin Marbles, II., p. 119; cf. Welcker, Alte Denkmaeler, I., p. 399.
151.Cast of a torso of a standing female figure, wearing a chiton of fine texture, and a mantle. The chiton is drawn over the girdle, and has a short diploïdion. The mantle is worn over the shoulders. The hair falls in three tresses in front of each shoulder, and in overlapping layers, down the back. The head, forearms and legs from the knees are wanting. The original, of marble, is at Athens.
Height, 1 foot 6 inches. Le Bas, Monuments Figurés, pl. 2, fig. 2; Sybel, No. 5007; Wolters, No. 112. Further literature is cited by Wolters.
152.Torso of a standing female figure wearing an under-chiton of fine texture, and an over-chiton with diploïdion which is worn so as to leave the left shoulder bare. The figure appears to have held a vessel in her lap, with both hands. The hair falls down the back, the locks terminating below the shoulders. The head and arms are wanting.—Athens (?). Elgin Coll.
Marble; height, 2 feet 10 inches. Clarac, V., pl. 821a, fig. 2069 b, c.
153.Torso of a standing female figure, wearing an under-chiton of fine texture, and an over-chiton with diploïdion which is worn so as to leave the left shoulder bare. The figure held a bowl in the right hand, and a fold of the skirt in the left hand. Broken off below the knees. The head, left arm and left hand are wanting. This figure appears to be of archaistic rather than of archaic workmanship, that is, the artist has consciously imitated the archaic style.—Athens. Presented by H. Gally Knight and N. Fazakerly, Esqs., 1818.
Marble; height, 1 foot 9 inches. Clarac, V., pl. 821a, fig. 2069a.
154.Torso of a standing female figure, wearing under-chiton of fine texture and over-chiton with a diploïdion which is worn so as to leave the left shoulder bare; the figure also has sandals. The hair falls in locks on the shoulders, and in a mass at the back. The head, arms and left shoulder are wanting.—From the smaller temple at Rhamnus. Presented by J. P. Gandy Deering, Esq.
Marble; height, 5 feet. Leake, Athens and Demi of Attica, II. p. 110; Synopsis, No. 325* (307*); Athenische Mittheilungen, XV., p. 65.
155.Cast of a relief, representing a female figure stepping into a chariot, holding the reins in her extended hands. The figure is probably that of a goddess. It has been conjectured, but without evidence, that the relief belonged to the Pre-Persian Parthenon. The original, which is of Parian marble, is at Athens.
Le Bas, Mon. Fig., pl. 1; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., I., 3rd ed., p. 153, fig. 28; Murray, I., p. 196; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 21. For further literature, see Wolters, No. 97.
156.Cast of a sepulchral relief, representing a woman enthroned. She holds a child in her arms. Before her are three figures, probably members of her family, with offerings.
The original, which is of marble, is in the Villa Albani at Rome. It was erroneously named by Winckelmann "Leucothea nursing the infant Bacchus."—From Athens (?).
Winckelmann, Monumenti Inediti, No. 56; Zoega, Bassirelievi Ant., I., pl. 41; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 175, fig. 38. For further literature, see Wolters, No. 243.
The temple of Athenè at Aegina stands on a commanding plateau in the north-east of the island. It is of the kind known as Doric peripteral hexastyle; that is to say, it is of the Doric order, surrounded by a colonnade, which has six columns at the ends and thirteen columns at the sides. The site was excavated in 1811 by a party of English and German explorers, and the sculptures discovered were purchased in 1812 by the Crown Prince of Bavaria. The principal figures were restored at Rome by Thorwaldsen and J. M. Wagner. In 1817 the collection was placed in the Glyptothek at Munich.
With the exception of an ivory eye (Cockerell, pl. 12) attributed by the discoverers to the image inside the temple, the only sculptures found were those which originally were contained in or surmounted the pediments of the temple.
The Aeginetan sculptures belong to the latest stage of archaic Greek art, and are the most important extant works of that period. For determining the date of the sculptures, political history is only so far of use that we may assume that they are not later than 456 b.c., in which year Aegina was subdued by Athens. From their style they appear to be considerably older than that date.
A minute analysis of the sculptures (Brunn, Das Alter der Aegin. Bildw. p. 9) shows that the east pediment is distinctly more advanced than the west in the expression of emotion, in the rendering of drapery, of the features, the beards, the veins; and in the general proportions. Brunn assigns the groups to the period immediately following the battle of Salamis (480 b.c.) and suggests that the sculptor of the east pediment belonged to a younger generation than his colleague.
The statues are made of Parian marble. They are attached to plinths which were let into the upper surface of the cornice, and are cut out of single blocks, a few small pieces of marble being separately attached. They showed clear traces of colour throughout, when first discovered. One shield from the east pediment was painted with a female figure. There were numerous adjuncts of bronze, such as arms and ornaments, which have been minutely enumerated by Brunn (Beschreibung, &c., p. 67). The restored pediments in the British Museum have been partially decorated in accordance with the scheme of Cockerell, who says: "The members of the entablature and pediment were discovered often in all their original vividness, which quickly disappeared on exposure to the atmosphere." (Cockerell, p. 27, pl. 6).
C. R. Cockerell, The Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, &c., 1860; Blouet, Expédition de Morée, III., p. 23; Brunn, Ueber das Alter der Aeginetischen Bildwerke in the Sitzungsber. der k. bayer. Akad., 1867, I., p. 405, and Ueber die Composition der Aeginetischen Giebelgruppen, ibidem, 1868, II., p. 448; Brunn, Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig's I., 4th ed., 1879; Wolters, Nos. 69-85.
The subject of the West pediment is a battle, in the presence of Athenè, over the body of a wounded warrior. From the Oriental dress of the archer on the right, it is inferred that the battle is being fought between Greeks and Trojans, and that the archer in question is Paris. The scene represented does not correspond exactly with any combat described by Homer. Archaeologists have accordingly been divided in opinion as to the subject. Some hold that the battle is that waged for the body of Patroclos, which was rescued principally by Menelaos, and Ajax, son of Telamon of Aegina. (Homer, Iliad, xvii.; Wolters, p. 48). Others have argued that the presence of Paris points to the fight over the body of Achilles as described in the Aethiopis of Arctinos. See especially Brunn, Beschreibung, p. 79. On account of the discrepancies between the sculptures and the literary tradition it is impossible to decide the question.
The arrangement adopted in the British Museum is that of Cockerell (pl. 16). To complete the group Cockerell supposed that nude figures similar to No. 178 of the East pediment advanced to the fallen hero from each side; and that a spearman knelt between the Paris (No. 168) and the wounded Trojan. Fragments remain of the two youths; but recent writers have put the spearman (No. 166) next the Paris. The positions of the spearmen and the archers on each side have also been reversed. The archers are on this view placed furthest from the combat, and may perhaps be supposed to be protected by the spearmen. Further changes have been proposed which are based on fragments not represented by casts, and which therefore need not here be discussed.
Restorations of the West Pediment. (1) With 11 figures, the bowmen in front of the spearmen. Cockerell, supplementary plate; Blouet, Exp. de Morée, III., pl. 58, fig. 2; Müller, Denkmaeler, I., pls. 6, 7; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., fig. 19a; Murray, I., pl. 7. (2) With 11 figures, the bowmen behind the spearmen. Cockerell, plate; Brunn, Sitzungsber. der k. bayer. Akad., 1868, II., plate; Lange, Ber. der k. sächs. Ges. d. Wissenschaften, 1878, pl. 3, fig. 1. (3) With 13 figures. Cockerell, pl. 16. (4) With 14 figures. Lange, loc. cit., pl. 3, fig. 2; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., fig. 19b.
The figures beginning from the left of the West pediment are:—
160. Wounded Greek, recumbent, disarmed, drawing an arrow from his right breast.
Restored:—Nose, right forearm, left leg from knee to ankle and toes. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 11; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 69, fig. 2; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 25.
161. Greek advancing with spear. Brunn proposes the name of Ajax, son of Oileus.
Restored:—Crest, right hand, left forearm and part of feet. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 9; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 69, fig. 1.
162. Greek archer, armed, kneeling and drawing his bow. This may well be the Aeginetan hero, Teucer, brother of Telamonian Ajax.
Restored:—Head, arms, several flaps of the cuirass, and left leg from the knee. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 10; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 66, fig. 1.
163. Bearded Greek warrior advancing, with shield extended and right hand raised to hurl spear. Perhaps Telamonian Ajax.
Restored:—Nose, crest, half right forearm, part of shield, both legs. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 3; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 68, fig. 1.
164. Wounded hero, leaning on his right hand, which held a sword; the shield is held out to cover the body. This is either Achilles or Patroclos according to the chief schemes of interpretation.
Restored:—Neck, right shoulder, fingers and toes. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 2; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 67, fig. 2.
165. Figure of Athenè presiding over the battle. She stands erect in the centre of the pediment, fully armed and wearing her aegis. There is an archaic formality in her pose and in the composition of the drapery, which shows that the artist has adopted a traditional type of temple-image. The earrings, locks of hair, a Gorgoneion, and snakes bordering the aegis were made of metal, and attached.
Restored:—Nose, right hand, part of left hand. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 1; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 67, fig. 1; Brunn, Denkmaeler No. 23.
166. Kneeling Trojan, with right hand raised to hurl spear.
Restored:—Head, right armpit and shoulder-blade, three fingers of right hand; left arm from middle of biceps; right leg from the knee; left knee with part of thigh, and part of left foot. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 6; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 65, fig. 2.
167. Warrior advancing with shield extended, and right hand raised to hurl spear, closely corresponding to No. 163. Perhaps Aeneas.
Restored:—Head (which should probably be bearded), right armpit and breast, fingers, parts of shield and legs. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 4; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 66, fig. 2.
168. Archer kneeling and drawing his bow. He wears a Phrygian cap, which has holes in the front for a metal wreath. (Compare the wreath on the Ephesian fragment No. 46, 12); also closely-fitting breeches and coat of leather. This figure, which is always known as Paris, closely corresponds with the 'Teucer,' No. 162.
Restored:—Tips of cap, nose and chin; some fingers, and the forepart of the left foot. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 7; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 68, fig. 2; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 24.
169. Wounded Trojan, leaning on the right arm. An arrow may have been fixed in the left knee between the thumb and forefinger.
Restored:—Head, left arm, part of right forearm and hand; both legs from the knees. Cockerell, pl. 15, No. 8; pl. 16; Blouet, III., pl. 65, fig. 1.
170. The pediment is surmounted by an acroterion, consisting of a palmette between two large volutes, which are for the most part restorations. (Cockerell, pls. 1, 4.)
On each side of the acroterion is an architectonic female figure, treated in the same designedly archaic style as the figure of Athenè.
171. Female figure (on the left).
Restored:—Head, right hand and part of sleeve; left forearm with part of sleeve and drapery. Cockerell, pl. 1.
172. Female figure (on the right).
Restored:—Head; lower edge of right sleeve; right hand and forearm; parts of drapery. Cockerell, pl. 1.
173. At each angle are casts of lions' heads, which in the absence of casts from the originals have been taken from the cornice of the archaic temple at Ephesus. The lion's head engraved by Cockerell (pl. 13, fig. 4), appears to be his restoration.
174. The angles are surmounted by Gryphons, which have been cast from a single original. The original has been considerably restored, especially the head.
Cockerell, pl. 13, fig, 4. The hind parts of one Gryphon were discovered by Chandler in 1765, but they were immediately broken and stolen. Chandler, Travels in Greece, p. 12.
Of the east pediment only five figures were found, sufficiently complete to be restored. The fragments leave no doubt that the composition was as a whole analogous to that of the west pediment, and that the subject was a battle for the body of a fallen warrior, fought in the presence of Athenè.
The clue to the subject represented is given by the figure of Heracles, and archaeologists are almost unanimous in thinking that the scene is a battle in the war which Telamon of Aegina, aided by Heracles, waged against Laomedon, King of Troy (cf. Apollodorus, ii., 6, 3, 4).
The arrangement is nearly that of Cockerell. The Heracles, however, has been placed on the right side of the pediment, because the left side of the statue is the most carefully finished, and was therefore intended to be seen.
Restorations of the East Pediment. (1) With 10 figures; wounded warrior as restored. Prachov, Mon. dell' Inst., IX., pl. 57. (2) With parts of 12 figures; wounded warrior not as restored. Cockerell, supplementary plate; Müller, Denkmaeler, I., pl. 8; Blouet, III., pl. 58, fig. 1; Murray, I., pl. 7. For two heads from this pediment, see Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 121.
The figures beginning with the left end of the pediment are the following:—
175. Warrior lying down, supported by his arm, within the handles of his shield. He is wounded below the right breast.
Restored:—Crest, part of visor, four fingers of left hand, four toes of left foot; right leg from the middle of the thigh. Cockerell, p. 32, pl. 14, No. 4; Blouet, III., pl. 59, fig. 2.
176. Warrior advancing, with a shield on the left arm, and a lance (?) in the right hand.
Restored:—Head, hands, right hip; most of shield, Cockerell, p. 32, pl. 14, No. 2; Blouet, III., pl. 59, fig. 1; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 28.
177. Wounded warrior fallen backwards on his shield.
Restored:—Head, arms, shield, right leg, left leg from the knee. The correctness of the restoration has been doubted. The left side is most corroded by the atmosphere, and would therefore seem to have been uppermost. In that case the figure must have resembled that of the fallen warrior in the centre of the west pediment. It is thus drawn by Cockerell, in a supplementary plate. Engraved as restored, Cockerell, pl. 14, No. 1; Blouet, III., pl. 61, fig. 1.
178. Figure of a youth leaning forward, to draw away the fallen warrior.
Restored:—Nose, arms, pubis, most of right foot, and left foot; Cockerell, pl. 14, No. 3; Blouet, III., pl. 61, fig. 2; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 26.
179. Heracles kneeling, and drawing his bow. He wears the lion's skin on his head, and had a quiver on the left side.
Restored:—Nose, some flaps of the cuirass, left hand, right forearm, right foot, part of left thigh and knee. Cockerell, pl. 14, No. 5; Blouet, III., pl. 60; Rayet, Monuments, No. 25; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 27; Mitchell, Selections, pl. 1.
180. The acroterion; (181) the figures beside it; (182) the lions, and (183) the Gryphons here exhibited, are repetitions of those of the west pediment. The acroterion, which originally surmounted the east pediment, was larger and more important than that of the west. (Cockerell, pl. 13.) The figures which stood on each side of the east acroterion, are shown by the surviving fragments to have been similar to those of the western end, but were on a rather larger scale.
The temple of Zeus at Olympia was being built from about 470-455 b.c. (cf. Boetticher, Olympia, p. 247). It is certain that the metopes must have been placed in position during the process of construction. They should therefore probably be dated about 460 b.c. (Boetticher, p. 289).
190. Cast of a metope, from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Heracles binding the Cretan Bull.
The original is of marble. The greater part of this metope was discovered by the French expedition to the Morea, in 1829, and is now in the Louvre. The face and hind legs of the bull were discovered in the German excavations, and are now at Olympia. The parts first discovered are published in Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 443. For the completed metope, see Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, V., pl. 17; Boetticher, Olympia, p. 279; Wolters, No. 274.
191. Cast of a metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Heracles supports on his shoulders the vault of heaven, while the Titan Atlas brings him the golden apples of the Hesperides. Heracles has a folded cushion on his shoulders to make the burden easier; Atlas stands before him with six apples in his outstretched hands. A Hesperid or nymph stands behind and raises one hand as if to share the weight.
The original is of marble, and is at Olympia, where it was discovered by the German excavators. Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, I., 26; Athenische Mittheilungen, I., pl. 11; Murray, II., pl. 13; Wolters, No. 280; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 445; Boetticher, Olympia, p. 285. (Boetticher's illustration is most nearly complete. That of Overbeck gives both hands of Atlas.) For the female head, see Journ. of Hellen. Studies, V., pl. 45.
192. Cast of a statue of Victory, by Paionios of Mendè, Victory is supposed to be moving forward through mid-air. One foot rests lightly on the back of an eagle, beneath which is a rock. The wings and draperies that were originally spread out behind the figure are now wanting. The statue stood on a triangular pedestal, about 19 feet high. On the pedestal was an inscription recording that the Victory was offered as a tithe of spoil to Olympian Zeus by the Messenians and Naupactians; and that the author was Paionios of Mendè, who made the acroteria of the temple:—Μεσσάνιοι καὶ Ναυπάκτιοι ἀνέθεν Διὶ | Ὀλυμπίῳ δεκάταν ἀπὸ τῶμ πολεμίων. Παιώνιος ἐποίησε Μενδαῖος | καὶ τἀκρωτήρια ποιῶν ἐπὶ τὸν ναὸν ἐνίκα. Mr. Murray (Gr. Sculpt., ii. p. 162) suggests as an explanation of the last clause of the inscription that the Victory was a replica of the acroteria (or figures above the pediments) of the Temple of Zeus. These are known to have been gilded figures of Victory (Paus., v. 10, 2). Pausanias was inclined to think that the inscription referred to a war of the Messenians against the Acarnanians (452 b.c.); but the Messenians of his time supposed that the statue was erected soon after the defeat of the Spartans at Sphacteria in 424 b.c.
Discovered by the German excavators at Olympia, and now in the Museum at Olympia.
Marble. Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, I., pls. 9-12; inscr. ibidem, pl. 32; pedestal, ibidem, II., pl. 34; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., figs. 88, 89; Murray, II., pl. 19; Wolters, Nos. 496, 497.
Of the following sculptures, Nos. 200-207 are examples of a somewhat numerous class of nude male figures, standing constrainedly with the heads directed straight to the front, having the hands either close by the sides, or slightly raised, by a bending of the arms at the elbows.
The name of Apollo has been commonly given to sculptures of the type here described, but doubts have often been raised as to the accuracy of the title. It seems clear that at the stage of art represented by these figures one type of nude male figure was made to serve various purposes. It cannot be doubted that the type was often used to represent Apollo, for such figures have been found in or near shrines of Apollo at Naucratis (Petrie, Naukratis, i., pl. 1, fig. 4), Delos (Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 323), Actium (Gaz. Arch., 1886, p. 235), and at the temple of Apollo Ptoös in Boeotia (Bull. de Corr. Hellénique, x., p. 66, Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 12). The same type of Apollo occurs, e.g. on a vase in the Brit. Mus. (No. E, 313; Gaz. Arch., 1882, p. 58), on a vase published in Annali dell' Inst., 1849, pl. D (cf. Hamilton Vases, ii., pl. 6), and on a Pompeian fresco (Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 58). Compare a relief in the Palazzo Corsini (Dütschke, ii., p. 114). At the same time, similar figures served to represent athletes (Paus., viii., 40) and, perhaps, were placed on tombs, to represent a deceased person.
The series of figures which have the hands by the thighs is older than that in which the hands are raised, and the invention of the type has been assigned to the Cretan Daedalid School of Dipoinos and Skyllis (Furtwaengler, Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 55). For an enumeration and discussion of the known examples of this series see Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., i., p. 229, note 33; Bull. de Corr. Hellénique, x., p. 67; xi., p. 1; Gaz. Arch., 1886, p. 239; Roscher, Lexicon, i, p. 449; Wolters, No. 14. The second series, here represented by Nos. 206, 207, in which the hands are raised, is developed from the first, but shows a great advance in all respects. Perhaps it gives the Cretan type as developed by artists of the school of Aegina.
200. Figure of Apollo (?) standing with the right leg drawn back, and with the hands pressed against the hips. He has a diadem across the forehead, and the hair falls on the shoulders and down the back.—Naucratis.
Alabaster; height, 10¼ inches.
201. Apollo (?) standing. Torso from the neck to the knees. The right leg is drawn back, and the hands are pressed against the thighs. The hair falls down on the shoulders and on the back.—Naucratis.
Alabaster; height, 4⅜ inches.
202. Apollo. Torso from the neck to the middle of the thighs. The hands are pressed against the thighs. The hair falls on the shoulders and on the back. A belt crosses the body under the right arm, and over the left shoulder.—Temenos of Apollo, Naucratis.
Marble (?); height, 3⅛ inches. Naukratis, I., pl. 1, fig. 9.
The following figures, Nos. 203, 204, belong to the same series, though the type is slightly varied, and No. 203, having been found in the temenos of Aphroditè, probably does not represent Apollo:—
203. Male torso from the neck to the knees. The right hand lies across the breast; the left leg is to the front. The hair is cut square at the back, and in the front falls down on the shoulders.—Temenos of Aphroditè, Naucratis.
Alabaster; height, 6¼ inches. Naukratis, II., pl. 14, fig. 13.
204. Apollo. Male torso, similar to the preceding, but having no hair on the shoulders.—Temenos of Apollo, Naucratis.
Alabaster; height, 4¾ inches. Naukratis, I., pl. 1, fig. 3.
205. Figure of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back, and with the hands pressed against the hips. The hair falls on the shoulders, terminating in a straight line, and intersected with conventional grooves running at right angles to each other.—From Greece, probably from Boeotia.
Marble; height, 2 feet 6¼ inches. Murray, I., pl. 2, p. 107; Arch. Zeit., 1882, pl. 4, p. 51; Mitchell, p. 213; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 77.
206. Figure of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back. The hair is dressed, with the headdress known as the krobylos.
Round the taenia are five drilled holes, indicating that a wreath of bronze was attached. The arms, and the legs from the knees are wanting.
This figure, commonly known as the Strangford Apollo, is referred by Brunn to the school of Callon of Aegina.
From the collection of Viscount Strangford. Stated in 1864 to be from Lemnos, but said also to have been found in Anaphè (Newton, Essays, p. 81).
Marble; height, 3 feet 4 inches. Mon. dell' Inst., IX., pl. 41; Annali dell' Inst., 1872, p. 181; Brunn, Ber. d. k. bayer. Akad. Phil.-hist. Classe, 1872, p. 529; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 181, fig. 40; Murray, I., pl. 2; Rayet et Thomas, Milet et le Golfe Latmique, pl. 28; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 51; Wolters, No. 89; Arch. Zeit., 1864, p. 164*.
207. Torso of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back.
The head, arms, and legs from the knees are wanting; two points of attachment near the front of the hips, show that the arms were considerably bent at the elbows.
This figure was found in the Dromos of a tomb at Marion (Cyprus).
Marble; height, 2 feet 5 inches. Herrmann, Gräberfeld von Marion, p. 22. The tomb contained a coin of Idalium, of about 510 b.c., a gold cup with acorns repoussé, several black figured vases, one at least of an early character, and no red figured vases.
208. Head of Apollo. The hair is bound with a taenia and falls in short corkscrew curls over the forehead, and in a flowing mass down the shoulders. The sharply cut outlines of the features, and the wiry character of the hair suggest that this head is a copy of an archaic work in bronze. It has been conjectured that the head is copied from the Apollo of Canachos at Branchidae, but there is no evidence in favour of the theory, which has been given up as untenable. (Cf. Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., i., p. 110). A bronze statuette from the Payne Knight collection, which has a better claim to be considered a copy of Apollo of Canachos, may be seen in the Bronze Room.
Brought from Rome by Lord Cawdor, and purchased by Townley.—Townley Coll.
Parian marble; height, 1 foot 5½ inches. Specimens, I., pls. 5, 6; Mus. Marbles, III., pl. 4; Ellis, Townley Gallery, I., p. 321; Müller, Denkmaeler, I., pl. 4, fig. 22; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 109, fig. 14; Wolters, No. 228; cf. Rayet et Thomas, Milet et le Golfe Latmique, pl. 37; Michaelis, Anc. Marbles, p. 94.
209. Statue of Apollo, standing. The chief weight of the body is thrown on the right leg, while the left knee is bent, and the left foot rests lightly on the ground. The head is slightly turned to the right. The hair is dressed with the headdress known as the krobylos.
The left hand and right forearm, which appear to have been separate pieces, are wanting. The left hand held some attribute, perhaps a branch, for which there is a mark of attachment by the left knee. The right hand, which rested on the stump beside the right leg, seems to have held a strap.—From the Choiseul-Gouffier Collection, 1818.
Marble; height, 5 feet 10½ inches. Restored: tip of nose. Specimens, II., pl. 5; Ellis, Townley Gallery, I. p. 194; Clarac, III., pl. 482b, No. 931a; Mus. Marbles, XI., pl. 32; Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., pl. 4; Stereoscopic, No. 143; Murray, I., pl. 8; Wolters, No. 221.
This statue, commonly known as the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo, together with other examples of the same type, has given rise to much discussion. The chief replica is a statue at Athens, commonly called the 'Apollo on the Omphalos,' having been associated with a marble omphalos, or sacred cone of Apollo, which was discovered at the same time. Grave doubts, however, exist as to the connection of the figure and of the omphalos. (Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., p. 180; Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 248.) The Athenian statue is published, Conze, Beiträge, pls. 3, 5; Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., pl. 5; Murray, I., pl. 8; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 42. For a list of other replicas of the type, see Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 239. The statue is generally taken to be an Apollo. It has, indeed, been argued that it is a pugilist, and not Apollo (Waldstein, Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., p. 182; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., II., p. 414); and if the figure is Apollo, it must be admitted that 'the proportions are rather suited to the patron of pugilism (Il. ψ. 660) than to the leader of a celestial orchestra' (Specimens, II., pl. 5; Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 244). But the title is established by a quiver attached to the stump of a replica in Rome (Matz-Duhn, Bildw. in Rom, I., No. 179), and of a somewhat similar figure at Cassel (Athenische Mittheilungen, I., pl. 10), and by the fact that a copy (No. 210) has been found in the temple of Apollo at Cyrenè. Moreover, the head of a similar figure, undoubtedly an Apollo, occurs on a relief in the Capitoline Museum (Braun, Vorschule der Kunstmythologie, pl. 5). Compare also the figure of Apollo on a vase at Bologna, Mon. dell' Inst., X., pl. 54. There has also been much discussion as to the school of art to which the type must be assigned, and as to the character of the original statue. The statue has been assigned by different writers to Calamis ("Apollo Alexikakos"; Conze, Beiträge, p. 19; Murray, I., p. 189; Furtwaengler, in Roscher's Lexicon, I., p. 456); to Pasiteles (Kekulé, Menelaos, p. 30); to Alcamenes (Furtwaengler, Athenische Mittheilungen, V., p. 39; cf. Journ. of Hellen. Studies, VIII., p. 41); to Pythagoras of Rhegium ("Euthymos"; Waldstein, loc. cit.); and to Callimachos ("Apollo Daphnephoros"; Schreiber, Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 248). It has been variously held that the original statue was of bronze, and is therefore lost (Mus. Marbles, XI., pl. 32; cf. Murray, I., p. 191), or that the Athenian statue is the original, whence other copies are derived (Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 240).
The krobylos seems to indicate some Attic sculptor of the first half of the 5th cent. b.c. (Schreiber, Athenische Mittheilungen, VIII., p. 255). The existence of numerous copies proves that the original was famous, and it is generally supposed that the figure is an Apollo. It is impossible to make a more definite statement with confidence, in the present state of our knowledge as to the Attic sculptors who preceded Pheidias.
210. Head of Apollo, a replica of No. 209. The head is broken off in the middle of the neck. The chin, the tip of the nose, and parts of the hair are wanting. The author of this copy has misunderstood the arrangement of the headdress.—Found by Smith and Porcher in the Temple of Apollo at Cyrenè.
Marble; height, 11 inches; Smith and Porcher, p. 100 No. 19 Murray, I., p. 190.
211. Head of Apollo, a replica of No. 209. The head is broken off below the chin. The nose and the tip of the chin are wanting.
This copy shows better than either 209 or 210, the arrangement of the hair in the krobylos, the origin of the plaits being clearly indicated. It chiefly differs from them in the amount of hair falling down at the back of the ears; in this head there are the remains of thick tresses, while in the other instances there are only a few short curls. There is a rectangular hole at the back of the head.—Presented by the Hon. E. A. Pelham.
Marble; height, 9½ inches. This head was found in 1882 at a cottage at Ventnor, built by Sir Richard Worsley. It was, doubtless, brought by him from Greece.
215. Fragment of lacunar, from a ceiling, with two panels in low relief. (1) Horse galloping to the right. (2) Gryphon seizing a stag.
Below is a band of rosettes in squares. The whole is surrounded by remains of a large bead ornament.—Presented by Algernon, fourth Duke of Northumberland.
Green limestone (?); height, 1 foot 1½ inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.
216. Fragment of lacunar nearly similar to preceding. The upper panel is wanting. Below is a Gryphon seizing a stag. Below is a band of rosettes; between the two panels is a band of maeander pattern.—Presented by Algernon, fourth Duke of Northumberland.
Green limestone (?); height, 9¼ inches; width, 10¼ inches.
217. Fragment of relief. On a pedestal is a lion, walking to the left. Before the lion are three balls. Above were two figures standing to the front, of which only the feet remain. The figure on the left stood with feet side by side; that on the right stood with the legs crossed (Fig. 4). This relief, though undoubtedly archaic, appears not to belong to the prehistoric period of Mycenae (cf. Nos. 1-6).—Mycenae. Inwood Coll.
Green limestone; height, 1 foot 1¼ inches; width, 9½ inches. Synopsis, No. 429; Loeschcke, Athenische Mittheilungen, IV., p. 296; Wolters, No. 53.
Fig. 4.—Relief from Mycenae, No. 217.
Three great names represent the early prime of Greek sculpture, namely, Myron, Pheidias, and Polycleitos of Argos. These three are thought to have been fellow pupils of the Argive sculptor Ageladas.
The present part of the catalogue deals with Myron and Pheidias. The third part deals first with their immediate successors in Attica, and then turns to Polycleitos of Argos and the sculptures of the Peloponnese; and next to the special class of Greek reliefs.