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ATHENS AND GREECE. PORTRAITS
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of Parian marble, and the comparison of other reliefs indicates
for it an Ionian origin, perhaps on one of the islands of the
Aegean. We miss the attributes which in the stelae of
Sparta refer to the cultns of ancestors. It is, however,
impossible to be sure that they were originally wanting.
For it seems clear that on the right hand, which lies palm
upwards, some attribute rested which was indicated in colour,
FIG. 54. HEAD OF YOUTH HOLDING DISCUS.
perhaps a flat cup, while the raised left hand may have held
a flower.
The stelae of youths are in the early age more common
than those of grown men. As we might expect, the portraits
of young men, even from their tombs, are marked by an
athletic tinge. In the wall of Themistocles, already mentioned,
near the Dipylon gate of Athens, was found the head of a young
man, who had probably been a winner in the pentathlon,
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of Parian marble, and the comparison of other reliefs indicates
for it an Ionian origin, perhaps on one of the islands of the
Aegean. We miss the attributes which in the stelae of
Sparta refer to the cultns of ancestors. It is, however,
impossible to be sure that they were originally wanting.
For it seems clear that on the right hand, which lies palm
upwards, some attribute rested which was indicated in colour,
FIG. 54. HEAD OF YOUTH HOLDING DISCUS.
perhaps a flat cup, while the raised left hand may have held
a flower.
The stelae of youths are in the early age more common
than those of grown men. As we might expect, the portraits
of young men, even from their tombs, are marked by an
athletic tinge. In the wall of Themistocles, already mentioned,
near the Dipylon gate of Athens, was found the head of a young
man, who had probably been a winner in the pentathlon,