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Addenda 115 i
Leipzig 1928 xiii./xiv. p. ix fig. 116 ('urn 460 v. Chr.'), W. Lamb Greek and Roman
Bronzes London 1929 pp. 95 (c. 550 B.C.), 148 f., 153 pi. 32, a. Frontier's facsimile
of the inscription is repeated in Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1476).
Between April 192G and September 1928 a magnificent bronze god was fished up
piecemeal from a depth of more than 25 fathoms in the sea off Artemision. It seems
to have formed part of the cargo on board a ship, which was carrying barrels of late
Fig. 899.
Hellenistic style from northern Greece towards Rome, but foundered in a gale off the
upper end of Euboia. If so, the statue had probably been pillaged from some temple in
Thessaly or Chalkidike or even Thrace. After careful cleaning from accretions and
corrosions, the whole figure (c. 2"io,n high) proved to be a nude bearded god striding
forwards with right arm drawn back and left arm outstretched—one of the most impressive
of all Greek statues (Ch. Karouzos 'The Find from the Sea off Artemision' in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1929 xlix. 141 —144 figs. 1 and 2 pis. 7 and 8, id. ''0 llooeib&v rod 'Aprefinrlov'
in the 'Apx- Ae\r. 1930—31 xiii. 41 —104 figs. 1—42 pis. 1 ( = my fig. 900)—5, H. G.
Beyen La statue d'Arlimision La Haye 1930 pp. 1—55 pis. 1—13 with further biblio-
graphy p. 1 n. 1). Several problems arise: (1) To what period, school, and sculptor
C. III.
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Leipzig 1928 xiii./xiv. p. ix fig. 116 ('urn 460 v. Chr.'), W. Lamb Greek and Roman
Bronzes London 1929 pp. 95 (c. 550 B.C.), 148 f., 153 pi. 32, a. Frontier's facsimile
of the inscription is repeated in Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1476).
Between April 192G and September 1928 a magnificent bronze god was fished up
piecemeal from a depth of more than 25 fathoms in the sea off Artemision. It seems
to have formed part of the cargo on board a ship, which was carrying barrels of late
Fig. 899.
Hellenistic style from northern Greece towards Rome, but foundered in a gale off the
upper end of Euboia. If so, the statue had probably been pillaged from some temple in
Thessaly or Chalkidike or even Thrace. After careful cleaning from accretions and
corrosions, the whole figure (c. 2"io,n high) proved to be a nude bearded god striding
forwards with right arm drawn back and left arm outstretched—one of the most impressive
of all Greek statues (Ch. Karouzos 'The Find from the Sea off Artemision' in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1929 xlix. 141 —144 figs. 1 and 2 pis. 7 and 8, id. ''0 llooeib&v rod 'Aprefinrlov'
in the 'Apx- Ae\r. 1930—31 xiii. 41 —104 figs. 1—42 pis. 1 ( = my fig. 900)—5, H. G.
Beyen La statue d'Arlimision La Haye 1930 pp. 1—55 pis. 1—13 with further biblio-
graphy p. 1 n. 1). Several problems arise: (1) To what period, school, and sculptor
C. III.
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