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Buck, Carl Darling: Discoveries in the Attic Deme of Ikaria, 1888
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SCULPTURES FROM 1KARIA.
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cone, sacred to Dionysos. Reference is made, here, to the lines of Ver-
gil's Georgics (n, 393-5): ergo rite suum Baccho diccmus honor em \ ear-
minibus patriis, lancesque et liba feremus, 1 et ductus cornu stabit saeer
hireus ad aram. The diameter of the basin in the painting seems to be
about equal to the height of the statue, so that we need not feel that
our slab is too large to be explained in this way. Nor is it an objec-
tion that it is of stone, not of metal. But a serious objection to this
theory is found in the pyramidal shape of one side and the cornice
with moulding, features which seem inexplicable in connection with
such a basin or platter. These may be taken as rather favoring a sug-
gestion which has been made, that the slab was a roof-piece over a
niche, the hollow side being underneath and the strange objects some
form of ornament.
XXV. —Figure 12, from a photograph, represents the head of one
of the griffins already mentioned above, p. 68.
XXVI. —Besides the sculptures in marble above described, a few-
objects in bronze were found, the most important of which is a small
anathema with a female figure incised in outline {Fig. 13). This is
apparently a divinity, perhaps Artemis, holding a flower in her right
hand, while her left hand and arm support a sceptre. The h< ad-dre.-s
is peculiar, and the whole style archaic.52
Cael D. Buck.
Athens,
February, 1889.
M [The bronze is about 0.12 m. in length, somewhat broken away at the bottom
and front side below, and is still attached to a narrow ribbon of bronze by which it
was affixed originally. A hole pierces the neck. The bronze is cut out to follow
the outlines desired, as in the case of the bronze from Olympia noticed by Flasch
(Badmeistee, Denkmdler, p. 1104s) and that at Metaponto described by A. Emer-
son \nAm. Joum.Arch., iv, p. 30. The figure faces toward one's left and holds in her
right hand her veil of light stuff by the fingers while the thumb is extended
straight from the wrist as in the other hand, which does not grasp the staff. The
veil extends from the top of the head somewhat in front of the facial outline and
probably curved to meet the hand (see Gerhard, Auserl. <jr. Vasen., pi. xxiti). A
bit of the bronze is lost here and a portion of the hand also. The lines here show
the fall of the garment and the folds toward the neck. The dress is the diploi'dion,
leaving the neck and arms bare. No attributes are visible, except the staff'and pos-
sibly a wreath on the head. The staff'is wound with a fillet. Here, again, I suggest
the possibility of a representation of the local heroine. Except in the drawing of the
hands, there seems to be nothing more than a slight severity in the style. If the staff
be a sceptre and not a thyrsos, this may well have been assigned to Erigone, as it ofteD
is given to Triptolemos.--A. C. M.]
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cone, sacred to Dionysos. Reference is made, here, to the lines of Ver-
gil's Georgics (n, 393-5): ergo rite suum Baccho diccmus honor em \ ear-
minibus patriis, lancesque et liba feremus, 1 et ductus cornu stabit saeer
hireus ad aram. The diameter of the basin in the painting seems to be
about equal to the height of the statue, so that we need not feel that
our slab is too large to be explained in this way. Nor is it an objec-
tion that it is of stone, not of metal. But a serious objection to this
theory is found in the pyramidal shape of one side and the cornice
with moulding, features which seem inexplicable in connection with
such a basin or platter. These may be taken as rather favoring a sug-
gestion which has been made, that the slab was a roof-piece over a
niche, the hollow side being underneath and the strange objects some
form of ornament.
XXV. —Figure 12, from a photograph, represents the head of one
of the griffins already mentioned above, p. 68.
XXVI. —Besides the sculptures in marble above described, a few-
objects in bronze were found, the most important of which is a small
anathema with a female figure incised in outline {Fig. 13). This is
apparently a divinity, perhaps Artemis, holding a flower in her right
hand, while her left hand and arm support a sceptre. The h< ad-dre.-s
is peculiar, and the whole style archaic.52
Cael D. Buck.
Athens,
February, 1889.
M [The bronze is about 0.12 m. in length, somewhat broken away at the bottom
and front side below, and is still attached to a narrow ribbon of bronze by which it
was affixed originally. A hole pierces the neck. The bronze is cut out to follow
the outlines desired, as in the case of the bronze from Olympia noticed by Flasch
(Badmeistee, Denkmdler, p. 1104s) and that at Metaponto described by A. Emer-
son \nAm. Joum.Arch., iv, p. 30. The figure faces toward one's left and holds in her
right hand her veil of light stuff by the fingers while the thumb is extended
straight from the wrist as in the other hand, which does not grasp the staff. The
veil extends from the top of the head somewhat in front of the facial outline and
probably curved to meet the hand (see Gerhard, Auserl. <jr. Vasen., pi. xxiti). A
bit of the bronze is lost here and a portion of the hand also. The lines here show
the fall of the garment and the folds toward the neck. The dress is the diploi'dion,
leaving the neck and arms bare. No attributes are visible, except the staff'and pos-
sibly a wreath on the head. The staff'is wound with a fillet. Here, again, I suggest
the possibility of a representation of the local heroine. Except in the drawing of the
hands, there seems to be nothing more than a slight severity in the style. If the staff
be a sceptre and not a thyrsos, this may well have been assigned to Erigone, as it ofteD
is given to Triptolemos.--A. C. M.]