Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (5.1886-1890)

A SIKYONIAN STATUE.

[Plate III.]

Of the mutilated marble statue found at Sikyon, as stated in the
preceding article/ some mention has already been made in archae-
ological publications;2 but no exhaustive discussion has appeared
of the qualities of the work and the interesting questions which it
suggests.3

The statue4 represents a nude youth resting upon the left leg and with
the back of the left hand upon the hip. A considerable portion of the
bent left arm is missing. It was carved from a separate piece of marble,
and was attached by metal pins, as is evident from the seven holes, with
the trace of an eighth, which appear in the vertically cut surface to which
it was secured. About this arm a himation is draped, and it falls, from a
point just below the shoulder, in straight folds, with a gradual increase
of fullness as it descends. Doubtless it originally reached the base
of the statue and served as a support. As such, it is well motived; for
the sharpness of the folds shows that the fabric is of comparatively light
texture, as can be gathered also from the manner in which it is held, the
hand upon the hip supporting easily the bulk of the weight without the
appearance, between wrist and arm-pit, of a brooch or clasp to help

1 Supplementary Report of the Excavations (pp. 20-21).

''Seventh Annual Report Am. School, p. 4G (Merriam), with a cut from Scribwr's
Magazine, 1888; Journ. Hell. Studies, 1888, p. 130 (Harrison).

3 The plate which accompanies this article is made from an indifferent photograph
by Panagopoulos of Athens, to which, with another similar one from a different point
of view and a third photograph of the head, I have been limited in the preparation
of this paper. The lack of a cast has necessarily left much to be desired.

4The dimensions of the statue in its present condition are as follows: length of
face, from roots of hair to end of chin, 0.1G m.; breadth of face, 0.11 m.; measure
over face from ear to ear, 0.21 m.; height of forehead, 0.06 m.; length of nose, about
0.055 m.; length of eye, 0.03 m.; of mouth, 0.035 m.; distance of nose from ear,
0.08 m.; tip of lobe of ear below plane of outer angle of eye, 0.03 m.; measure
around chin and crown of-head, 0.67 m.; around head above curls, 0.56 m.; over
breast from arm-pit to arm-pit, 0.34 m.; from throat to navel, 0.33 m.; from navel
to pubes, 0.12 m.; between hips, 0.26 m.; around waist, 0.71m.; from shoulder to
shoulder, 0.35 m.; from back of neck to small of back, 0.40 m. ; across back from
arm-pit to arm-pit, 0.34 m.

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