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some resemblance to that of Ptolemy Philadelphia, and
it is possible that we have a king and queen of the
Macedonian period represented here as allegorical per-
sonages. The figure of Chronos is draped, probably, in a
mantle, but this cannot be ascertained, as the body is
nearly concealed by that of Oikoumeue.
The relief in this composition is unusually complicated ;
the figures range from a very low to a high degree of pro-
jection, and the planes of the background are varied, so as
to indicate the receding and salient surfaces of the moun-
tain. The manner in which the figures in the right-hand
corner are crowded, one behind the other, is also peculiar.
So picturesque a treatment would not have been admitted
in Greek art till that later period when sculpture came
under the influence of painting, and attempted to express
in marble scenes more suitable to the sister art.
This relief was found at Bovilke as early as the middle
of the seventeenth century, and was formerly in the
Colonna Palace at Pome. It was first published by
Kircher, in his Latium (Amstelod. 1671, p. 81), and has
since been the subject of much commentary. Restora-
tions, part of Homer's right foot, the left hand of Mythos
with the patera it holds, the heads of Sophia, Apollo, the
Delphic priestess, the Poet on the base, and of all the Muses,
except Melpomene, Clio, Polyhymnia, and Thalia; also the
left arm of Thalia and the flying end of her peplos, together
with the corner of the slab to which it is attached, and the
opposite corner. It is uncertain how the upper margin of
the slab originally terminated.
Ht. 3 ft. 10} in. Length, 2 ft. 7} in. Purchased in 1819. The
various memoirs on this relief are noted in the excellent treatise
by Kortigarn, De Tabula Archelai, Bonn, 1862 ; see also Brunn,
Geschichte d. G. K., I., pp. 584-592. Overbeck, Geschichte d.
Gr. Plastik, II., p. 332, fig. 114. Schmidt, Annali of Inst. Arch.
Rom., 1849, pp. 119-130. Helbig, Campan. Wandmalerei, p. 26.
Harrison, No. 827. Caldesi, No. 27.
some resemblance to that of Ptolemy Philadelphia, and
it is possible that we have a king and queen of the
Macedonian period represented here as allegorical per-
sonages. The figure of Chronos is draped, probably, in a
mantle, but this cannot be ascertained, as the body is
nearly concealed by that of Oikoumeue.
The relief in this composition is unusually complicated ;
the figures range from a very low to a high degree of pro-
jection, and the planes of the background are varied, so as
to indicate the receding and salient surfaces of the moun-
tain. The manner in which the figures in the right-hand
corner are crowded, one behind the other, is also peculiar.
So picturesque a treatment would not have been admitted
in Greek art till that later period when sculpture came
under the influence of painting, and attempted to express
in marble scenes more suitable to the sister art.
This relief was found at Bovilke as early as the middle
of the seventeenth century, and was formerly in the
Colonna Palace at Pome. It was first published by
Kircher, in his Latium (Amstelod. 1671, p. 81), and has
since been the subject of much commentary. Restora-
tions, part of Homer's right foot, the left hand of Mythos
with the patera it holds, the heads of Sophia, Apollo, the
Delphic priestess, the Poet on the base, and of all the Muses,
except Melpomene, Clio, Polyhymnia, and Thalia; also the
left arm of Thalia and the flying end of her peplos, together
with the corner of the slab to which it is attached, and the
opposite corner. It is uncertain how the upper margin of
the slab originally terminated.
Ht. 3 ft. 10} in. Length, 2 ft. 7} in. Purchased in 1819. The
various memoirs on this relief are noted in the excellent treatise
by Kortigarn, De Tabula Archelai, Bonn, 1862 ; see also Brunn,
Geschichte d. G. K., I., pp. 584-592. Overbeck, Geschichte d.
Gr. Plastik, II., p. 332, fig. 114. Schmidt, Annali of Inst. Arch.
Rom., 1849, pp. 119-130. Helbig, Campan. Wandmalerei, p. 26.
Harrison, No. 827. Caldesi, No. 27.