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FROM THE PERSIAN DESTRUCTION
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folds of which are minutely represented. Long curls hang
down on her breast which is covered with the aegis. The
head and lower arms are wanting. The style of the statue is
decidedly archaic, yet exhibits some degree of mastery of the
sculptor's art. The marble of which the statue is made is not
Attic but comes from the islands. The type of a seated
Athena is not common in the remains of Greek art, though
Strabo tells us (xiii. p. 601) that many ancient images of
Fig. 39.—Archaic Statue of Athena
seated.
Fig. 40—Statue of Man carrying Calf.
(Acropolis Museum.)
Athena seated were to be seen, and is instructive as a
reminder of the Trojan image of Athena referred to by Homer
{Iliad, vi. 90). From two inscribed bases of statues by Endoeus
that have been found, one of them written in Ionic Greek and
the other showing the sculptor's name carved in what seems
to be the Ionic alphabet, it is inferred that Endoeus was an
Ionic Greek and that he was at work in Athens in the latter
part of the sixth century B.C. As we know also that Endoeus
made a similar statue of Athena for Erythrae, the conclusion
seems warranted that this archaic seated Athena is the very
one mentioned by Pausanias (72). Though so few male.
101
folds of which are minutely represented. Long curls hang
down on her breast which is covered with the aegis. The
head and lower arms are wanting. The style of the statue is
decidedly archaic, yet exhibits some degree of mastery of the
sculptor's art. The marble of which the statue is made is not
Attic but comes from the islands. The type of a seated
Athena is not common in the remains of Greek art, though
Strabo tells us (xiii. p. 601) that many ancient images of
Fig. 39.—Archaic Statue of Athena
seated.
Fig. 40—Statue of Man carrying Calf.
(Acropolis Museum.)
Athena seated were to be seen, and is instructive as a
reminder of the Trojan image of Athena referred to by Homer
{Iliad, vi. 90). From two inscribed bases of statues by Endoeus
that have been found, one of them written in Ionic Greek and
the other showing the sculptor's name carved in what seems
to be the Ionic alphabet, it is inferred that Endoeus was an
Ionic Greek and that he was at work in Athens in the latter
part of the sixth century B.C. As we know also that Endoeus
made a similar statue of Athena for Erythrae, the conclusion
seems warranted that this archaic seated Athena is the very
one mentioned by Pausanias (72). Though so few male.