Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

A TORSO FROM DAPHNE.
[Plate XXIV.]

The torso which by the kindness of the Ephor-General of
Antiquities, Mr. Kabbadias, I am allowed to publish in this
article, was found in the summer of 1892, in the Pass of Daphne,
at the western end, near the temple of Aphrodite, in excavations
conducted by Mr. Kabouroglos for the Archaeological Society of
Athens. It is noticed in the Deltion of 1892, p. 49, as Kopfibv
veaviov ap%aiKf)s Te'xvrjs, a designation which is not only inade-
quate, considering the importance of the object, but incorrect.
It cannot properly be called archaic.

The torso is of Parian marble, and is somewhat more than two-
thirds life size. The only significant dimension that can be given
exactly is the length of the body from the bottom of the neck to
the membrum virile. This dimension is .36 m. The figure is
therefore somewhat smaller than the ephebus from the Acropolis,
a cut of which is given in Collignon, Histoire de la, Sculpture
Grecque, p. 374. It coincides more nearly in size with thePto'ian
Apollo published in the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique(1886,
plate vi), except that the latter has an abnormally long body.
Owing to the breaking off of the left leg and the right arm, with
some of the body adjacent, it is impossible to give either the
breadth of the shoulders or of the hips, or even the girth of our
torso. Even the right leg is so broken as to leave no clear traces
of the situation of the knee; but the thigh seems to have been
longer in proportion to the body than was the case in the Ptoian
Apollo.

There can be little doubt that the figure was meant to represent
an ephebus, not so much from its small size as from the general
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