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the centre behind, covers upper part of forehead and temples with a mass
of tangled locks. Lips parted, showing the edge of both rows of teeth.
The form of the eyeball is clearly seen through the closed lids. The wings,
both of which lie back, are not set symmetrically : the 1. springs almost from
the backbone, the r. from the r. shoulder near its junction with the arm.
The easy pose of the flexible body and its soft fleshiness are well
observed and expressed, and the execution generally is good; but the
wing-feathers and hair are superficially treated. The figure shows greater
skill in composition than do most of its class (cf. GW/. g8, &c.) and
appears to be copied or adapted from some Hellenistic original which, on
grounds of the general effects attempted and the resemblance of details in
hair and head, may be connected with the sleeping Hermaphrodite (a
good example in the Terme, Helbigs, 1362) which has been attributed to
Polycles (Dickins, p. gy). The statue from Tarsus
in the British Museum (discussed in Bulle, Abr A/Wrc/?, no. 18$)
appears to be a copy from the same original, though the hair is uncon-
fined and the r. hand holds a wreath of laurel and poppy-heads; there a
vase under the head and a groove for a pipe show that, like the present
example, it was probably used as a fountain figure, but the poppies
suggest that the purpose of the original was sepulchral.
Brought from the Antiquario Comunale in 1921.
Mariani in viii (1921), p. 328; Ashmole in y. A/. A. xlii
G922), P- H4-
3. BUST OF DOMITIAN (pi. 16).
H. .53 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : name-plate and plinth. Bust broken at
sides: chin from below the lip, which is intact. Back of head and neck split away
almost vertically.
On bust of Flavian shape male head half turned to 1.; gaze directed
slightly downwards. Eyes set high in the sockets, with their horizontal
<2jv&r sloping up towards the nose. Forehead lofty. Nose aquiline.
Cheeks and throat full and soft. Lips finely drawn, with an emphatic
bow in the upper one, and a slight upward turn at the corners. Abundant
hair combed forward from the crown, carefully waved and slightly parted on
each side of the forehead, which it surrounds with a series of formal locks.
The set gaze and the firm line of the mouth, with its projecting
upper and receding lower lip, produce an effect of majesty and energetic
determination touched with cruelty. Hekler (GT. <3726? Acwz. TUr/?*. xxxiv,
pi. 220 b) considers the expression cold, repellent, and full of vulgar
arrogance, but rightly praises the artist's fresh realism ; while at first
Amelung (Helbig^, 1048), on the supposition that it was Titus, admired
the successful rendering of noble features. Undoubtedly a fine con-
temporary portrait of Domitian, to whose later coins it closely corresponds
(cf. Bernoulli, AU'w. ZX'CM. ii. 2, Munztaf. ii. 11). The hair, which stands
up perpendicularly from the surface of the head, may be a wig (cf. Juv.
&?/. iv. 38, ed. Housman, and Suet. Zkwz. 18), though this is nowhere
precisely stated ; while the short-sightedness recorded by Suetonius (2!/.)
is indicated by the way in which the lower lids are drawn up towards the nose.
Found in Rome between 1896 and 1906 (Arndt-Bruckmann, /cr.rzZ).
Recently brought from the Antiquario Comunale.
Amdt-Bruckmann, 835 ; 6fA7^, viii (1921), p. 328 della Seta, AaA'a
fig. 366 and p. 332.
1912
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65
the centre behind, covers upper part of forehead and temples with a mass
of tangled locks. Lips parted, showing the edge of both rows of teeth.
The form of the eyeball is clearly seen through the closed lids. The wings,
both of which lie back, are not set symmetrically : the 1. springs almost from
the backbone, the r. from the r. shoulder near its junction with the arm.
The easy pose of the flexible body and its soft fleshiness are well
observed and expressed, and the execution generally is good; but the
wing-feathers and hair are superficially treated. The figure shows greater
skill in composition than do most of its class (cf. GW/. g8, &c.) and
appears to be copied or adapted from some Hellenistic original which, on
grounds of the general effects attempted and the resemblance of details in
hair and head, may be connected with the sleeping Hermaphrodite (a
good example in the Terme, Helbigs, 1362) which has been attributed to
Polycles (Dickins, p. gy). The statue from Tarsus
in the British Museum (discussed in Bulle, Abr A/Wrc/?, no. 18$)
appears to be a copy from the same original, though the hair is uncon-
fined and the r. hand holds a wreath of laurel and poppy-heads; there a
vase under the head and a groove for a pipe show that, like the present
example, it was probably used as a fountain figure, but the poppies
suggest that the purpose of the original was sepulchral.
Brought from the Antiquario Comunale in 1921.
Mariani in viii (1921), p. 328; Ashmole in y. A/. A. xlii
G922), P- H4-
3. BUST OF DOMITIAN (pi. 16).
H. .53 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : name-plate and plinth. Bust broken at
sides: chin from below the lip, which is intact. Back of head and neck split away
almost vertically.
On bust of Flavian shape male head half turned to 1.; gaze directed
slightly downwards. Eyes set high in the sockets, with their horizontal
<2jv&r sloping up towards the nose. Forehead lofty. Nose aquiline.
Cheeks and throat full and soft. Lips finely drawn, with an emphatic
bow in the upper one, and a slight upward turn at the corners. Abundant
hair combed forward from the crown, carefully waved and slightly parted on
each side of the forehead, which it surrounds with a series of formal locks.
The set gaze and the firm line of the mouth, with its projecting
upper and receding lower lip, produce an effect of majesty and energetic
determination touched with cruelty. Hekler (GT. <3726? Acwz. TUr/?*. xxxiv,
pi. 220 b) considers the expression cold, repellent, and full of vulgar
arrogance, but rightly praises the artist's fresh realism ; while at first
Amelung (Helbig^, 1048), on the supposition that it was Titus, admired
the successful rendering of noble features. Undoubtedly a fine con-
temporary portrait of Domitian, to whose later coins it closely corresponds
(cf. Bernoulli, AU'w. ZX'CM. ii. 2, Munztaf. ii. 11). The hair, which stands
up perpendicularly from the surface of the head, may be a wig (cf. Juv.
&?/. iv. 38, ed. Housman, and Suet. Zkwz. 18), though this is nowhere
precisely stated ; while the short-sightedness recorded by Suetonius (2!/.)
is indicated by the way in which the lower lids are drawn up towards the nose.
Found in Rome between 1896 and 1906 (Arndt-Bruckmann, /cr.rzZ).
Recently brought from the Antiquario Comunale.
Amdt-Bruckmann, 835 ; 6fA7^, viii (1921), p. 328 della Seta, AaA'a
fig. 366 and p. 332.
1912
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