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paste* or perhaps of precious stones, as, according to Pliny,
Avas the case with the lion which ornamented the tomb of
a king in Cyprus, and which had emerald eyes of exceeding
1 tightness.
The Knidos lion in design, style, and scale, bears a
striking resemblance to one of the colossal lions once in the
Piraeus at Athens, and brought thence to Venice by
Mbrosini. A cast of one of the forepaws of this lion is
placed near the Knidian lion for comparison.
The position of the Doric tomb on a promontory, the
style of its architecture and of the sculpture which sur-
mounted it, make it probable that this monument com-
memorated a naval victory of a date not later than the
first half of the fourth century B.C. The victory gained
off Knidos by 'the Athenian admiral Konon over the
Lakedaimonians, B.C. 394, may have been the event so
commemorated, though it is not certain that the Knidians
had a share in it.
Length, 10 feet; height, 6 feet. Liibke, History of Sculpture, I.,
p. 203 ; Harrison, No. 724; Caldesi, I. No. 15.
K. -CASTS OF SCULPTURES FROM OLYMPIA.
(K. 1.) Statue of Victory (Nike) erected at Olympia by
the Messenians and Naupaktians from spoils taken in war,
between B.C. 425-420. An inscription found with it con-
firms the statement of Pausanias (V. 26. 1), that this
statue was the work of Pasonios of Mende in Thrace.
Found at Olympia in 1875. Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, I., pll. 9-12.
Schubring in Arch. Zeit. 1877, p. 59; Brunn, Berichte d. k.
bayer. Akad. d. Wissen. 1876, p. 3-40, and 1877, p. 13, fol.
(K. 2.) Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos. This
group was found at Olympia in 1877 on the site of the
Heraion within which Pausanias had seen it. He states
that it was the work of Praxiteles (V. 17, 3). One of
paste* or perhaps of precious stones, as, according to Pliny,
Avas the case with the lion which ornamented the tomb of
a king in Cyprus, and which had emerald eyes of exceeding
1 tightness.
The Knidos lion in design, style, and scale, bears a
striking resemblance to one of the colossal lions once in the
Piraeus at Athens, and brought thence to Venice by
Mbrosini. A cast of one of the forepaws of this lion is
placed near the Knidian lion for comparison.
The position of the Doric tomb on a promontory, the
style of its architecture and of the sculpture which sur-
mounted it, make it probable that this monument com-
memorated a naval victory of a date not later than the
first half of the fourth century B.C. The victory gained
off Knidos by 'the Athenian admiral Konon over the
Lakedaimonians, B.C. 394, may have been the event so
commemorated, though it is not certain that the Knidians
had a share in it.
Length, 10 feet; height, 6 feet. Liibke, History of Sculpture, I.,
p. 203 ; Harrison, No. 724; Caldesi, I. No. 15.
K. -CASTS OF SCULPTURES FROM OLYMPIA.
(K. 1.) Statue of Victory (Nike) erected at Olympia by
the Messenians and Naupaktians from spoils taken in war,
between B.C. 425-420. An inscription found with it con-
firms the statement of Pausanias (V. 26. 1), that this
statue was the work of Pasonios of Mende in Thrace.
Found at Olympia in 1875. Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, I., pll. 9-12.
Schubring in Arch. Zeit. 1877, p. 59; Brunn, Berichte d. k.
bayer. Akad. d. Wissen. 1876, p. 3-40, and 1877, p. 13, fol.
(K. 2.) Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos. This
group was found at Olympia in 1877 on the site of the
Heraion within which Pausanias had seen it. He states
that it was the work of Praxiteles (V. 17, 3). One of