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Waldstein, Charles: The Mantineian Reliefs
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THE MANTINEIAN RELIEFS.*
[Plates XV, XVI.]
In the year 1887, M. G. Fougeres of the French School at Athens,
while digging at Mantineia, came upon three slabs of marble basreliefs.
These M. Fougeres published in a very interesting article in the organ
of the French school,1 in which he endeavored to identify these slabs
with the reliefs decorating the base of the statues of Leto, Apollo and
Artemis in their temple at Mantineia as described by Pausanias (viii.
9), thereby greatly enhancing the undoubted value of his important dis-
covery. Since then Professor Overbeck,2 supported by several other
authorities, has denied M. Fougeres' identification. It is the object
of this paper to adduce further reasons for the ascription of these re-
mains to the reliefs mentioned by Pausanias, and it is hoped that the
identification may become conclusive.
The three slabs were found among the ruins of a Byzantine church
at Mantineia in which they served as pavement, the face bearing the
reliefs fortunately having been turned downward. They are of white
marble, according to M. Fougeres possibly from Doliana near Tegea,
and are now deposited in the National Museum at Athens where they
have been put together carefully under the direction of M. Kabbadias.
The plates illustrating M. Fougeres' article are from photographs from
the originals taken in the museum ; but, owing perhaps to insufficient
light, and to spots and corrosions which disfigure the marble and inter-
fere more or less with the lines and modeling, they are not as good as
*The substance of this paper was read at the opening meeting of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, Jan. 17, 1890.
1 Bull, de corr. Iicllen., xn, 1888, pp. 105 seq., pis. i, n, in. His view is shared by
Ravaissox, Cbmpte-rendu de Vaead. des interiipt., etc., 1888, p. 83; Losciicke, Juhrbuch
d.Instit., 1888, p. 192; Fcktwangler, Philolor/. Wochenschrift, 1888, p. 1482.
8 Bericht d. Konigl. Sachs. Oenell. d. Wissensch., 1888, pp. 284 se<j. / Or. Kunstmylholo-
gie, in, pp. 454, 457, where also a full list of other representations of Apollo and Mar-
syas is given.
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[Plates XV, XVI.]
In the year 1887, M. G. Fougeres of the French School at Athens,
while digging at Mantineia, came upon three slabs of marble basreliefs.
These M. Fougeres published in a very interesting article in the organ
of the French school,1 in which he endeavored to identify these slabs
with the reliefs decorating the base of the statues of Leto, Apollo and
Artemis in their temple at Mantineia as described by Pausanias (viii.
9), thereby greatly enhancing the undoubted value of his important dis-
covery. Since then Professor Overbeck,2 supported by several other
authorities, has denied M. Fougeres' identification. It is the object
of this paper to adduce further reasons for the ascription of these re-
mains to the reliefs mentioned by Pausanias, and it is hoped that the
identification may become conclusive.
The three slabs were found among the ruins of a Byzantine church
at Mantineia in which they served as pavement, the face bearing the
reliefs fortunately having been turned downward. They are of white
marble, according to M. Fougeres possibly from Doliana near Tegea,
and are now deposited in the National Museum at Athens where they
have been put together carefully under the direction of M. Kabbadias.
The plates illustrating M. Fougeres' article are from photographs from
the originals taken in the museum ; but, owing perhaps to insufficient
light, and to spots and corrosions which disfigure the marble and inter-
fere more or less with the lines and modeling, they are not as good as
*The substance of this paper was read at the opening meeting of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, Jan. 17, 1890.
1 Bull, de corr. Iicllen., xn, 1888, pp. 105 seq., pis. i, n, in. His view is shared by
Ravaissox, Cbmpte-rendu de Vaead. des interiipt., etc., 1888, p. 83; Losciicke, Juhrbuch
d.Instit., 1888, p. 192; Fcktwangler, Philolor/. Wochenschrift, 1888, p. 1482.
8 Bericht d. Konigl. Sachs. Oenell. d. Wissensch., 1888, pp. 284 se<j. / Or. Kunstmylholo-
gie, in, pp. 454, 457, where also a full list of other representations of Apollo and Mar-
syas is given.
284