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SALA DEGLI ORTI LAMIANI 7, 8
131
ridge of flesh on root of nose serves to cast the eye into deeper shadow.
Lips parted, showing edge of upper row of teeth. Gaze directed into the
distance : expression touched with languor.
The head has (since the appearance of the article by Graf, 7<?<r. rz7.)
usually been considered a copy, more or less faithful, of the Heracles by
Scopas in the Gymnasium at Sicyon (Paus. ii. 10. 1). The only
differences which Graf admits between this number and GG//. 28 (q.v.)
are in hair and position of head, whereas in reality neither proportions,
head-shape, general style, nor detail correspond ; while a close comparison
of style and measurements shows that he was wrong in considering both
heads to belong to the group represented in full length by the Lansdowne
Heracles. Compared with the work of Scopas as seen in the Tegean
heads, the shape of head and face agrees, though the hair differs both in
design and detail: the mouth is not dissimilar, and the modelling offers
certain analogies, especially in its emphasis on the framework of bone:
while the eye, allowing for the evident difference of subject, shows, if not
the same forms, at least an exaggeration of the same tendencies.
The head can hardly be that of Heracles. The expression is not in
keeping with such a personality, and the statue, with its Dionysiac wreath,
would have been singularly ill-suited for erection in a gymnasium. But
if we claim to identify it, not only as a copy of a work by Scopas, but of
one for which there is literary evidence, then our choice should fall on
some statue which might be expected to embody a similar conception to
the present; and we may be nearer the truth in thinking that the original
was the Dionysus by Scopas at Cnidus (Pliny, TV. 77. xxxvi. 22).
Found on the Quirinal, 1876.
TWA (7w. iv (1876), 217; AAA*. iv (1889), pp. 190-1, pi. IX. (Graf),
HelbigS, 926.
8. DIONYSUS WITH PANTHER AND SATYR (pi. 46).
H. 1-69111. Marble, Restored: tip of nose of Dionysus; front
of vine-wreath chipped and plastered over; 1. forearm, hand, and thyrsos; r. forearm,
hand, and cup; most of upper vine-leaves; r. foot, lower part of 1. leg down to the
foot; most of Satyr and panther; lower part of trunk.
The statue represents the god erect, with his weight on the r. leg,
and his head slightly turned to the r.; the r. arm was held out over the
vinestock that is seen at his r., and the 1. arm was held down. The
restorations are probable, though uncertain. The presence of the Satyr
and panther are proved by the goat's hoof and the claws seen on the
plinth. The face is empty of expression and is of the conventional
Hellenistic type. The motive is found with several variants, in most of
which Dionysus wears the ye/?pA, cf. Reinach, ii. 117. The pupils are
plastically rendered as in the second century A. D.
Ordinary decorative work of the Antonine period.
Found on the Esquiline in Viale Principessa Margherita, near the
so-called temple of Minerva Medica.
FH/f. 67772. vii (1879), p. 240, no. 1 ; Maviglia, Acw. AAz7. xxviii (1913), p. 61,
ix. e. 1.
Alin. 27169.
K 2
131
ridge of flesh on root of nose serves to cast the eye into deeper shadow.
Lips parted, showing edge of upper row of teeth. Gaze directed into the
distance : expression touched with languor.
The head has (since the appearance of the article by Graf, 7<?<r. rz7.)
usually been considered a copy, more or less faithful, of the Heracles by
Scopas in the Gymnasium at Sicyon (Paus. ii. 10. 1). The only
differences which Graf admits between this number and GG//. 28 (q.v.)
are in hair and position of head, whereas in reality neither proportions,
head-shape, general style, nor detail correspond ; while a close comparison
of style and measurements shows that he was wrong in considering both
heads to belong to the group represented in full length by the Lansdowne
Heracles. Compared with the work of Scopas as seen in the Tegean
heads, the shape of head and face agrees, though the hair differs both in
design and detail: the mouth is not dissimilar, and the modelling offers
certain analogies, especially in its emphasis on the framework of bone:
while the eye, allowing for the evident difference of subject, shows, if not
the same forms, at least an exaggeration of the same tendencies.
The head can hardly be that of Heracles. The expression is not in
keeping with such a personality, and the statue, with its Dionysiac wreath,
would have been singularly ill-suited for erection in a gymnasium. But
if we claim to identify it, not only as a copy of a work by Scopas, but of
one for which there is literary evidence, then our choice should fall on
some statue which might be expected to embody a similar conception to
the present; and we may be nearer the truth in thinking that the original
was the Dionysus by Scopas at Cnidus (Pliny, TV. 77. xxxvi. 22).
Found on the Quirinal, 1876.
TWA (7w. iv (1876), 217; AAA*. iv (1889), pp. 190-1, pi. IX. (Graf),
HelbigS, 926.
8. DIONYSUS WITH PANTHER AND SATYR (pi. 46).
H. 1-69111. Marble, Restored: tip of nose of Dionysus; front
of vine-wreath chipped and plastered over; 1. forearm, hand, and thyrsos; r. forearm,
hand, and cup; most of upper vine-leaves; r. foot, lower part of 1. leg down to the
foot; most of Satyr and panther; lower part of trunk.
The statue represents the god erect, with his weight on the r. leg,
and his head slightly turned to the r.; the r. arm was held out over the
vinestock that is seen at his r., and the 1. arm was held down. The
restorations are probable, though uncertain. The presence of the Satyr
and panther are proved by the goat's hoof and the claws seen on the
plinth. The face is empty of expression and is of the conventional
Hellenistic type. The motive is found with several variants, in most of
which Dionysus wears the ye/?pA, cf. Reinach, ii. 117. The pupils are
plastically rendered as in the second century A. D.
Ordinary decorative work of the Antonine period.
Found on the Esquiline in Viale Principessa Margherita, near the
so-called temple of Minerva Medica.
FH/f. 67772. vii (1879), p. 240, no. 1 ; Maviglia, Acw. AAz7. xxviii (1913), p. 61,
ix. e. 1.
Alin. 27169.
K 2