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is a long full garment reaching nearly to the feet; over
this again is a diploidion falling in pteryges below the hips
and girt at the waist; a mantle falls from the left shoulder
of Artemis, floating to below her knees; her companion
with her right hand draws forward over her right shoulder
the edge of a mantle, the other end of which falls over her
left arm ; the heads of both figures are encircled by a
stephane, from beneath which two long plaits of hair fall
on each shoulder. The foremost figure has a quiver with
a bow projecting from it behind her shoulder, and this
attribute, taken in connection with the lighted torch
which she carries, makes it certain that this figure is
Artemis. Her companion is probably Leto.
These figures are moving in a direction parallel to a
plain wall, beyond which in the distance is shown a
Corinthian temple, of which the columns are concealed by
the wall from a little below their capitals; the tiles of the
roof with the ornamental fronts of the covering tiles
(Jzalypteres anthemoti) are represented, but in incorrect
perspective: on the extreme left of the scene is a tripod
standing on a high column.
In order to understand the subject of this fragment, it
must be compared with similar reliefs in which the re-
mainder of the original composition has been preserved.
A list of these is given by Welcker, Alte Denkmaler, II.,
p. 37. From a comparison of several of these we may
assume that the fragment here described, when complete,
had on the right a figure of Apollo Kitharcedos leading the
procession, and holding out a pldale to receive a libation
from a Victory facing him on the extreme right (as in
the relief in the Villa Albani, engraved, Welcker, ibid.
PI. II., 3).
The temple represented in these reliefs may be that of
Apollo at Delphi, as is thought by Welcker, ibid. p. 49, and
the group represented may commemorate the institution of
is a long full garment reaching nearly to the feet; over
this again is a diploidion falling in pteryges below the hips
and girt at the waist; a mantle falls from the left shoulder
of Artemis, floating to below her knees; her companion
with her right hand draws forward over her right shoulder
the edge of a mantle, the other end of which falls over her
left arm ; the heads of both figures are encircled by a
stephane, from beneath which two long plaits of hair fall
on each shoulder. The foremost figure has a quiver with
a bow projecting from it behind her shoulder, and this
attribute, taken in connection with the lighted torch
which she carries, makes it certain that this figure is
Artemis. Her companion is probably Leto.
These figures are moving in a direction parallel to a
plain wall, beyond which in the distance is shown a
Corinthian temple, of which the columns are concealed by
the wall from a little below their capitals; the tiles of the
roof with the ornamental fronts of the covering tiles
(Jzalypteres anthemoti) are represented, but in incorrect
perspective: on the extreme left of the scene is a tripod
standing on a high column.
In order to understand the subject of this fragment, it
must be compared with similar reliefs in which the re-
mainder of the original composition has been preserved.
A list of these is given by Welcker, Alte Denkmaler, II.,
p. 37. From a comparison of several of these we may
assume that the fragment here described, when complete,
had on the right a figure of Apollo Kitharcedos leading the
procession, and holding out a pldale to receive a libation
from a Victory facing him on the extreme right (as in
the relief in the Villa Albani, engraved, Welcker, ibid.
PI. II., 3).
The temple represented in these reliefs may be that of
Apollo at Delphi, as is thought by Welcker, ibid. p. 49, and
the group represented may commemorate the institution of