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THE EARLIEST HELLENIC STONE STATUES 87
that it is rendered by a fine broad sweep of line. Close
inspection shows that this fine curve-is a rubbed curve, the
neck having been removed, but only to a slight depth, from
the plane of the face by steady abrasion. The face has been
perfectly smoothed, but this smoothing could not reach the
area between and just below the forehead and temple curls,
consequently the line that marks this difference of surface
is faintly seen. In the same way the groove of the eyebrows
is a groove which has been achieved by a steady process of
rubbing with a stone rubber shaped roughly like a pebble.
This particular form of hollow groove beneath the eyebrow,
above the eye and under the eye is peculiar to Attic work.
It is first seen on this head, but lasts almost to the end of the
sixth century. It can be seen most clearly in the Berlin Kore,1
in the Berlin ‘portrait’ head,2 in the Attic head in the Louvre,3
in the Sunium Apollo,4 in the Moschophoros, and, in reliefs,
most noticeably in the ‘Hoplite’ relief from the Kerameikos,5
to mention but a few instances. On the other hand, its occur-
rence in sculpture from other districts is extremely rare.
The Attic artists, in fact, used their abrasive stone on this
particular feature in a way which soon became established
as a fixed local convention that can almost be used as a
criterion by which to distinguish Attic work.
The hair of the Dipylon head, on the other hand, is
achieved almost exclusively with the aid of a punch. I can
detect no chisel-marks at all among the numerous hemi-
spheres which make up the very conventional hair of this
splendid head. Each bulb is carefully picked out with
pointed tools. The eyelids seem to have been rubbed
into the clear ridges that outline them, though the chisel
may have been used for picking out the main lines.
The sides of the nose are, in effect, made by a continuation
of the grooves above the eyelids. These two grooves are run
1 Antike Denkmdler, 1929, 11-18.
3 No. 3104, Louvre.
5 No. 1959, Nat. Mus., Athens.
2 No. 308, Altes Museum.
4 No. 2720, Nat. Mus., Athens.
that it is rendered by a fine broad sweep of line. Close
inspection shows that this fine curve-is a rubbed curve, the
neck having been removed, but only to a slight depth, from
the plane of the face by steady abrasion. The face has been
perfectly smoothed, but this smoothing could not reach the
area between and just below the forehead and temple curls,
consequently the line that marks this difference of surface
is faintly seen. In the same way the groove of the eyebrows
is a groove which has been achieved by a steady process of
rubbing with a stone rubber shaped roughly like a pebble.
This particular form of hollow groove beneath the eyebrow,
above the eye and under the eye is peculiar to Attic work.
It is first seen on this head, but lasts almost to the end of the
sixth century. It can be seen most clearly in the Berlin Kore,1
in the Berlin ‘portrait’ head,2 in the Attic head in the Louvre,3
in the Sunium Apollo,4 in the Moschophoros, and, in reliefs,
most noticeably in the ‘Hoplite’ relief from the Kerameikos,5
to mention but a few instances. On the other hand, its occur-
rence in sculpture from other districts is extremely rare.
The Attic artists, in fact, used their abrasive stone on this
particular feature in a way which soon became established
as a fixed local convention that can almost be used as a
criterion by which to distinguish Attic work.
The hair of the Dipylon head, on the other hand, is
achieved almost exclusively with the aid of a punch. I can
detect no chisel-marks at all among the numerous hemi-
spheres which make up the very conventional hair of this
splendid head. Each bulb is carefully picked out with
pointed tools. The eyelids seem to have been rubbed
into the clear ridges that outline them, though the chisel
may have been used for picking out the main lines.
The sides of the nose are, in effect, made by a continuation
of the grooves above the eyelids. These two grooves are run
1 Antike Denkmdler, 1929, 11-18.
3 No. 3104, Louvre.
5 No. 1959, Nat. Mus., Athens.
2 No. 308, Altes Museum.
4 No. 2720, Nat. Mus., Athens.