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and intimate of Pheidias1. L. R. Farnell2 says of it: 'The pose is
that of the musician pausing in his music. The stately and elaborate
drapery3...has much of the solemnity and arrangement of the folds
found in Pheidian works : only, if we may trust a replica discovered
at Rome some years ago, the lower folds of the mantle on the left side
were inflated as if the wind had caught them.' In my restoration
(pi. lviii, 3) I have copied this replica4. The peculiar treatment of

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1 For Agorakritos see C. Robert in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 882 (., G-
Richter 77ie Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks Yale Univ. Press 1929 p- 180
figs- 633—635, and the literature cited by F. Matz in the Katalog der Bibliot"e!
deutschen archdologischen Instituts in Rom Leipzig 1932 ii. 1. n J.

2 Farnell Cults of Gk. States iv. 347 pi. 41. f

3 L. Stephani in the Compte-rendu St. Pet. 1875 p. 122 If. argued that this
drapery, a long chitin with a large chlamys fastened either under the chin or on ^
shoulders so as to cover the back only, was not introduced till the second half 0 j
fourth century B.C. See also Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Apollon p. 182 ff. and

loc. cit. K. Wernicke in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 98 rejects the opinions of Step^ ^
and Overbeck, accepting Furtwangler's view that the Munich Apollon goes CpjcafCi
fifth-century original and 'steht in enger Beziehung zur Kunst des Pheidias.' ^jtfg
La sculpHire antique Paris 1926 ii. 43 includes it in his list of anonymous works re
to ' Le cinquieme siecle apres Phidias.' P. Wolters loc. cit. puts it later ('9l!tetattie
wirkungsvolle Kopie eines Originals des 4. Jahrhunderts, das wohl als ^
geschaffen viel von der wiirdevollen Haltung alterer Zeit bewahrt hatte').

4 C. L. Visconti in the Bull. Comm. Arch. Comun. di Roma 1887 p- 33° ' ^ 4.
21, id. 1888 p. 44 ff., L. Savignoni 'Apollon Pythios' in Ausonia igoy ii- 21 ' ^ in
The statue, discovered in 1887 in the Prati di Castello (Via Orazio) at Rome, Is ffe,i
the Palazzo dei Conservatori (W. Helbig Fuhrer durch die offentlichen ■Sa""U. pal
klassischer Alterliimer in Roup Leipzig 1912 i. 514 no. 907, Stuart Jones Cat- J' sgverer
d. Conserv. Rome p. u6f. Galleria no. 69 pi. 42 'The Conservatori statue is ' (be
in style and represents a work not much later than the Pheidian period ; w 1