DOI Artikel:
Buck, Carl Darling: Discoveries in the Attic Deme of Ikaria, 1888
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8678#0149
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STELE OF A WARRIOR FOUND AT IK ARIA.
the only ones of any special interest in connection with the Ikarian
stele are two fragments, both belonging to a stele of a hoplite, but, as
has been shown by a comparison of measurements, not parts of the
same work. The fragment found at the chapel of Hag. Andreas near
the village of Lebi and published by Conze,13 represents a warrior hold-
ing his lance in his left hand : in this, not only is the armor of a different
nature from that of the Aristion and Ikarian steles, but the whole work-
manship is of a more careless and inferior type. The second fragment,
which m'as found at Athens, shows only the legs from the knee down-
ward, and, though of much better workmanship than the last-named
fragment,13 is still far inferior to cither the Aristion or the Ikarian
stele. As in the former, and not in the latter, the muscles of the calf
are indicated by three curved parallel ridges.14
The most interesting sepulchral stele found outside of Attika is that
of Orchomenos, the work of the Naxian Alxenor, which, though of less
finished workmanship than the Aristion stele, belongs to a more ad-
vanced stage of art, as is evidenced by the attempt at foreshortening,
unsuccessful though it be, and also by the expression shown in the face,
in contrast to the totally expressionless face of Aristion.
The series of steles sculptured in relief—instructive, (1) as standing
midway between the arts of sculpture and painting and comprising
elements of both, (2) as being in the main the work of the early Attic
school, (3) as showing a considerable advance toward a perfected style—
receives in the Ikarian stele a very important augmentation, second in
interest only to the monument of Aristion.
Athens, Carl D. Buck.
November 10, 1888.
"Arch. Zeilung, 1860, Taj. exxxv. 2.
13 This would not, however, be a strong argument against the identity of the two
fragments, if it were not disproved by the measurements ; for it can be taken as an
almost general rule, in early sculpture, that the legs below the knee are much better
modelled than any other portion of the figure : witness the so-called Apollo of Tenea
in Munich.
,4At Laurion is the lower part of a similar stele representing two youths one behind
the other (Mitlheilungen, 1887, p. 290, and pi. x.).
[As an example of somewhat later date than the Aristion and Ikarian steles, I
would call attention to a fragment preserved in the Collection of Jlaron Baracco in
Rome: it is the lower part of a stele in low relief. It contains the lower limbs of a
male figure, and, on the kpt\tt'is, not a painting but a representation in low relief, if
my memory does not play me false, of a chariot with charioteer and horses in rapid
motion.—A. L. F., jr.]
STELE OF A WARRIOR FOUND AT IK ARIA.
the only ones of any special interest in connection with the Ikarian
stele are two fragments, both belonging to a stele of a hoplite, but, as
has been shown by a comparison of measurements, not parts of the
same work. The fragment found at the chapel of Hag. Andreas near
the village of Lebi and published by Conze,13 represents a warrior hold-
ing his lance in his left hand : in this, not only is the armor of a different
nature from that of the Aristion and Ikarian steles, but the whole work-
manship is of a more careless and inferior type. The second fragment,
which m'as found at Athens, shows only the legs from the knee down-
ward, and, though of much better workmanship than the last-named
fragment,13 is still far inferior to cither the Aristion or the Ikarian
stele. As in the former, and not in the latter, the muscles of the calf
are indicated by three curved parallel ridges.14
The most interesting sepulchral stele found outside of Attika is that
of Orchomenos, the work of the Naxian Alxenor, which, though of less
finished workmanship than the Aristion stele, belongs to a more ad-
vanced stage of art, as is evidenced by the attempt at foreshortening,
unsuccessful though it be, and also by the expression shown in the face,
in contrast to the totally expressionless face of Aristion.
The series of steles sculptured in relief—instructive, (1) as standing
midway between the arts of sculpture and painting and comprising
elements of both, (2) as being in the main the work of the early Attic
school, (3) as showing a considerable advance toward a perfected style—
receives in the Ikarian stele a very important augmentation, second in
interest only to the monument of Aristion.
Athens, Carl D. Buck.
November 10, 1888.
"Arch. Zeilung, 1860, Taj. exxxv. 2.
13 This would not, however, be a strong argument against the identity of the two
fragments, if it were not disproved by the measurements ; for it can be taken as an
almost general rule, in early sculpture, that the legs below the knee are much better
modelled than any other portion of the figure : witness the so-called Apollo of Tenea
in Munich.
,4At Laurion is the lower part of a similar stele representing two youths one behind
the other (Mitlheilungen, 1887, p. 290, and pi. x.).
[As an example of somewhat later date than the Aristion and Ikarian steles, I
would call attention to a fragment preserved in the Collection of Jlaron Baracco in
Rome: it is the lower part of a stele in low relief. It contains the lower limbs of a
male figure, and, on the kpt\tt'is, not a painting but a representation in low relief, if
my memory does not play me false, of a chariot with charioteer and horses in rapid
motion.—A. L. F., jr.]