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dimensions, and how many figures may have been sculptured on
each side, cannot now be ascertained. All that now remains are
portions of two female attendants of Bacchus, engaged in the
frenzied dance which characterized his followers. One of the
figures is clothed in the chiton without sleeves, bound round the
waist with the strophium, the upper part of which, being wide,
has slipped down the right arm; the small peplus, which is
floating behind her from the rapidity and vivacity of her move-
ments, leaves exposed the form of her person. In her right
hand she brandishes the thyrsus.
The other figure is attired with the same garments, but the
chiton retains the decorum of the original adjustment; her peplus
she has, herself, removed from her neck, and is waving it around
her like a shawl, contriving to throw it into forms which may
impart grace to all her motions. This monument has been very
neatly executed, and the composition is exceedingly beautiful.
Fig. 3. Height 1 f. 1 in. Old No. 116. New No. 248.
This head which has been broken from a statue, has been that
of a middle aged person, possibly a Vulcan or an Ulysses, for
both those personages are represented with a conical cap similar
to that which we perceive upon this head. The character of
countenance which is assigned to those persons is so much the
same, that some accompanying symbol is necessary to distin-
guish them. The same cap is generally placed by sculptors upon
the heads of mariners, but we fancy we can perceive through all
the mutilation of this fragment somewhat of an air of dignity,
which induces us to suppose that it originally belonged to some
statue of one of those superior characters rather than to that of
a mere sailor. Of the two we prefer assigning it to Ulysses, as it
does not appear to have as much of a family resemblance to
Jupiter as ought to attach to the countenance of Vulcan.
dimensions, and how many figures may have been sculptured on
each side, cannot now be ascertained. All that now remains are
portions of two female attendants of Bacchus, engaged in the
frenzied dance which characterized his followers. One of the
figures is clothed in the chiton without sleeves, bound round the
waist with the strophium, the upper part of which, being wide,
has slipped down the right arm; the small peplus, which is
floating behind her from the rapidity and vivacity of her move-
ments, leaves exposed the form of her person. In her right
hand she brandishes the thyrsus.
The other figure is attired with the same garments, but the
chiton retains the decorum of the original adjustment; her peplus
she has, herself, removed from her neck, and is waving it around
her like a shawl, contriving to throw it into forms which may
impart grace to all her motions. This monument has been very
neatly executed, and the composition is exceedingly beautiful.
Fig. 3. Height 1 f. 1 in. Old No. 116. New No. 248.
This head which has been broken from a statue, has been that
of a middle aged person, possibly a Vulcan or an Ulysses, for
both those personages are represented with a conical cap similar
to that which we perceive upon this head. The character of
countenance which is assigned to those persons is so much the
same, that some accompanying symbol is necessary to distin-
guish them. The same cap is generally placed by sculptors upon
the heads of mariners, but we fancy we can perceive through all
the mutilation of this fragment somewhat of an air of dignity,
which induces us to suppose that it originally belonged to some
statue of one of those superior characters rather than to that of
a mere sailor. Of the two we prefer assigning it to Ulysses, as it
does not appear to have as much of a family resemblance to
Jupiter as ought to attach to the countenance of Vulcan.