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STATUES OF ZEUS AND HADRIAN.
not so much on account of its size—for the other images of the god are
about as large, except the colossal ones at Ehodes and Eome—as for its
materials, which are ivory and gold, and for the beauty of its workman-
ship, considering its magnitude. There were also four statues of
Hadrian, two of Thasian, and two of Egyptian marble.1 Before the
pillars stood bronze statues of the cities that were colonies of Athens.2
These statues were probably fixed close to the columns like that of
Athena Hygieia at the Propylaea.3 The whole peribolus indeed was full
of statues ; for each of the before-mentioned cities dedicated to Hadrian
one of himself;4 while the Athenians outdid them by erecting behind
the temple—that is, at the west front, where it must have immediately
struck anybody entering the peribolus—a colossus of him, which was
well worth seeing, says Pausanias ; whence we may conclude that it was
really a fine work of art. Some of the statues of Antinoiis show that
sculpture still flourished in the time of Hadrian. Many of the bases of
these statues have been found with their dedicatory inscriptions, which
have been published from time to time by various authors, and are col-
lected by Boeckh in his ' Corpus Inscriptionum Grsecarum.'5 They seem
-to have stood round the sides of the enclosure. When its northern wall
was discovered in 1861, while making a road, one of these bases was
found with an inscription purporting that the statue had been dedicated
by Laodiceia on the Sea. A dedicatory inscription, seemingly either of
Ephesus or Smyrna, published by Chandler, but afterwards lost, was
also rediscovered.6
1 On these stones see Winckelmann, Op.
iii. 34.
2 ^aXxal 8e foraat 7r/)o twv klov<ov as
'h.6rjvaloi KaXovtTLV {jttolkovs 7roXftff.—Paus.
i. 18, G. Leake (p. 129 sq.), following Fa-
cius, translates: " Before the columns stand
brazen statues (of Hadrian, presented by
those) cities which the Athenians call
colonial." But the statues of Hadrian are
mentioned by Pausanias a few lines further
on. The old version of Romulus Amasaeus,
adopted by Siebelis (ad loe.) and by
Meursius (Ath. Att. i. 10) is more correct:
"ad templi vero columnas urbium, quas
colonias Athenienses appellant, ex aire
erecta sunt simulacra." Each of the colo-
nial cities presented a bronze statue of
itself (personified), and also a statue of
Hadrian.
3 Ross, Aufs. i. 192. See below.
4 eIkg)i>— a portrait statue.
6 Nos. 321 to 346.
6 Gerhard's Arch. Anz. March, 18G2,
p. 295 sq.; Boeckh, C. Inscr. Gr. No. 335
not so much on account of its size—for the other images of the god are
about as large, except the colossal ones at Ehodes and Eome—as for its
materials, which are ivory and gold, and for the beauty of its workman-
ship, considering its magnitude. There were also four statues of
Hadrian, two of Thasian, and two of Egyptian marble.1 Before the
pillars stood bronze statues of the cities that were colonies of Athens.2
These statues were probably fixed close to the columns like that of
Athena Hygieia at the Propylaea.3 The whole peribolus indeed was full
of statues ; for each of the before-mentioned cities dedicated to Hadrian
one of himself;4 while the Athenians outdid them by erecting behind
the temple—that is, at the west front, where it must have immediately
struck anybody entering the peribolus—a colossus of him, which was
well worth seeing, says Pausanias ; whence we may conclude that it was
really a fine work of art. Some of the statues of Antinoiis show that
sculpture still flourished in the time of Hadrian. Many of the bases of
these statues have been found with their dedicatory inscriptions, which
have been published from time to time by various authors, and are col-
lected by Boeckh in his ' Corpus Inscriptionum Grsecarum.'5 They seem
-to have stood round the sides of the enclosure. When its northern wall
was discovered in 1861, while making a road, one of these bases was
found with an inscription purporting that the statue had been dedicated
by Laodiceia on the Sea. A dedicatory inscription, seemingly either of
Ephesus or Smyrna, published by Chandler, but afterwards lost, was
also rediscovered.6
1 On these stones see Winckelmann, Op.
iii. 34.
2 ^aXxal 8e foraat 7r/)o twv klov<ov as
'h.6rjvaloi KaXovtTLV {jttolkovs 7roXftff.—Paus.
i. 18, G. Leake (p. 129 sq.), following Fa-
cius, translates: " Before the columns stand
brazen statues (of Hadrian, presented by
those) cities which the Athenians call
colonial." But the statues of Hadrian are
mentioned by Pausanias a few lines further
on. The old version of Romulus Amasaeus,
adopted by Siebelis (ad loe.) and by
Meursius (Ath. Att. i. 10) is more correct:
"ad templi vero columnas urbium, quas
colonias Athenienses appellant, ex aire
erecta sunt simulacra." Each of the colo-
nial cities presented a bronze statue of
itself (personified), and also a statue of
Hadrian.
3 Ross, Aufs. i. 192. See below.
4 eIkg)i>— a portrait statue.
6 Nos. 321 to 346.
6 Gerhard's Arch. Anz. March, 18G2,
p. 295 sq.; Boeckh, C. Inscr. Gr. No. 335