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146 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.
goddess is fully draped in a long robe which is folded crosswise over the breasts,
leaves the fore-arms free, and is confined by a tight waist-belt. Below the latter
it falls in straight folds on the right side only, while on the left it is looped up
over the thighs. No folds are shown below the thighs on this side, but probably
an underskirt is intended to be revealed. On the head is a veil, bound with a
fillet and falling behind. Stiff curls appear on the forehead under the fillet.
A rosette is seen over the right ear, and apparently there was a large
ring in the lobe. On the left these ornaments are wanting, but doubtless
through decay, since a small hole for the passage of a ring appears in the
lobe. The nose is very prominent, as in some other statuettes of the period
(e.g., Gold, iv. 1), and slightly aquiline. The eyeballs project (the left is now
wanting). The head, as a whole, is disproportionately large (Cp. ivory statuette,
pi. xxii.). Though not of the most Primitive art—there is a certain sense of
form in the modelling of the folds over the breast—this figure belongs
undoubtedly to a very early type, and might well be regarded as a work
of the first Samian school of sculptors in bronze. (Found outside the N.W.
corner of the Basis, in the lowest stratum, with the group of objects enumerated
on p. 42.)
xvi. 1. Goddess; H. "087. A more advanced type, on a smaller scale than No. 1.
The lower part of the figure is not columnar, and the upper tunic falls evenly,
without belt, to mid-thigh, while the underskirt continues in straight folds
thence on both sides to the feet, which have roughly marked division of toes.
The head is hopelessly corroded. (Found with the preceding.)
xvi. 2. Goddess; H. "057. The forehead recedes sharply. Poor work, with little
detail of drapery and much corroded. (Bought by the Ottoman Imperial
Commissary after the close of our excavations, and almost certainly found
during their course, but secreted by the finder.)
xv. 14. Hawk, erect and gripping a crouching Hare with its claws. H. "067.
The feathers are indicated by semicircular incisions on the breast, head and
wings, and by zigzags, arranged in vertical bands, on the tail, at the root of
which is a hatched band. The right side of the bird is much rubbed. (Found
with the first two statuettes.)
xv. 15. Ditto, erect on a square plate. H. -066. No detail of feathers indicated ;
the legs are bandy, and the eyes are hollow projecting sockets, once filled
doubtless with glass paste. The figurine is in unusually good condition, and
remarkable for a blend of naturalism and convention. (E. Area.)
xv. 16. Ditto, erect, with claws gripping a round perch. H. "058. Feathers
indicated on breast and head by horseshoe incisions. The wings have a broad
goddess is fully draped in a long robe which is folded crosswise over the breasts,
leaves the fore-arms free, and is confined by a tight waist-belt. Below the latter
it falls in straight folds on the right side only, while on the left it is looped up
over the thighs. No folds are shown below the thighs on this side, but probably
an underskirt is intended to be revealed. On the head is a veil, bound with a
fillet and falling behind. Stiff curls appear on the forehead under the fillet.
A rosette is seen over the right ear, and apparently there was a large
ring in the lobe. On the left these ornaments are wanting, but doubtless
through decay, since a small hole for the passage of a ring appears in the
lobe. The nose is very prominent, as in some other statuettes of the period
(e.g., Gold, iv. 1), and slightly aquiline. The eyeballs project (the left is now
wanting). The head, as a whole, is disproportionately large (Cp. ivory statuette,
pi. xxii.). Though not of the most Primitive art—there is a certain sense of
form in the modelling of the folds over the breast—this figure belongs
undoubtedly to a very early type, and might well be regarded as a work
of the first Samian school of sculptors in bronze. (Found outside the N.W.
corner of the Basis, in the lowest stratum, with the group of objects enumerated
on p. 42.)
xvi. 1. Goddess; H. "087. A more advanced type, on a smaller scale than No. 1.
The lower part of the figure is not columnar, and the upper tunic falls evenly,
without belt, to mid-thigh, while the underskirt continues in straight folds
thence on both sides to the feet, which have roughly marked division of toes.
The head is hopelessly corroded. (Found with the preceding.)
xvi. 2. Goddess; H. "057. The forehead recedes sharply. Poor work, with little
detail of drapery and much corroded. (Bought by the Ottoman Imperial
Commissary after the close of our excavations, and almost certainly found
during their course, but secreted by the finder.)
xv. 14. Hawk, erect and gripping a crouching Hare with its claws. H. "067.
The feathers are indicated by semicircular incisions on the breast, head and
wings, and by zigzags, arranged in vertical bands, on the tail, at the root of
which is a hatched band. The right side of the bird is much rubbed. (Found
with the first two statuettes.)
xv. 15. Ditto, erect on a square plate. H. -066. No detail of feathers indicated ;
the legs are bandy, and the eyes are hollow projecting sockets, once filled
doubtless with glass paste. The figurine is in unusually good condition, and
remarkable for a blend of naturalism and convention. (E. Area.)
xv. 16. Ditto, erect, with claws gripping a round perch. H. "058. Feathers
indicated on breast and head by horseshoe incisions. The wings have a broad