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SALA DEGLI ORTI LAMIANI sya-sg
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27 a. STATUE OF A HOUND (pi. 96).
H. 1-19 m. Marble, green serpentine (zwvZ 7^772<7<r<Zz'<3). Unrestored. Ears
lost.
Statue of a hound (? Great Dane) on his haunches with forelegs erect
and head looking slightly to r. The base is of the same material and
ancient.
Very fair work. The alert expression of the dog is well expressed.
It probably was one of a pair set up to guard a door or gateway. The
marble is of extreme rarity.
Found on the Esquiline near the Auditorium of Maecenas.
AM//. 6/7777. v (1877)) p- 268, no. 10; /Vi?/, (1877), p. 85 ; C. L. Visconti,
AM//. 6*77772. viii (1880), p. 207 f., pi. xx (ears supplied) ; Reinach, ii. 760. 4 ; Helbigh
94°.
28. OLD WOMAN CARRYING A LAMB (pi. 50).
H. 1.13 m. Marble, ,^*7W^//<7. Restored: head, 1. arm from drapery, 1. hand,
little finger of r. hand, most of the forelegs of lamb and 1. hind leg, ears and mouth.
An old woman is carrying a lamb under her r. arm, with her coarse
mantle looped up over her 1. shoulder so as to reveal her r. breast and
side, steadying herself with a staff in her 1. hand. The sinews of the
neck show that the head must have been slightly turned to her r.; and
the missing parts have been rightly restored. It is a masterpiece of
and of scientific anatomy. The skeleton-framework of the torso is
strongly marked, to indicate the leanness of old age, yet there is warmth
and softness in the rendering of the flesh ; it is a sympathetic representa-
tion of an old woman still alert in spite of decay. The discovery and the
sympathetic rendering of such types was one of the original achievements
of the Hellenistic period, when divine and heroic art were on the wane
(see Collignon, 0^. rz'/., p. 564). The workmanship of the drapery and
the flesh suggest a Hellenistic rather than a later hand. Cf. no. 27.
Found on the Esquiline near the former Vicolo di San Matteo.
Azz//. 6*77772. iii (1875), p. 242 ; Overbeck, id, p. 356, fig. 206^; Collignon, ii,
p. 566, fig. 201; Reinach, ii. 334. 5; Brunn-Bruckmann, 393*; E. Loewy,
A/aj/z'^, p. 120, fig. 248; UelbigS, 933.
Alin. 11738 ; And. 1734 ; B. 16677 ; M. 731.
28 a. SEPULCHRAL OF M. ULPIUS SOPHRON (pi. 52).
H. .69 m., Br. -42 m. Parian marbie.
In the pediment an eagle with outstretched wings looking up to 1.
Rosette in the space between the eagle's beak and wing. In the space on
the 1. a palm-branch. Rough arro/^zh in shape of palmettes.
Found in the Suburra and given to the Museum by Castellani.
Gatti, AM//. (Ywz. xvi (1888), p. 43, no. 2036.
C. A Z. vi. 26624.
29. STATUE OF BOY (pi. ,50).
H. .90 m. (base *07 m.). Parian marble. Restored : tip of nose, r. arm from the
shoulder and r. hand, much of the base. Head put on, but antique and belonging,
surface much scraped.
Life-size statue, rightly interpreted and in the main rightly restored
as a boy throwing a nut in a game that was in vogue both in Greece and
L
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27 a. STATUE OF A HOUND (pi. 96).
H. 1-19 m. Marble, green serpentine (zwvZ 7^772<7<r<Zz'<3). Unrestored. Ears
lost.
Statue of a hound (? Great Dane) on his haunches with forelegs erect
and head looking slightly to r. The base is of the same material and
ancient.
Very fair work. The alert expression of the dog is well expressed.
It probably was one of a pair set up to guard a door or gateway. The
marble is of extreme rarity.
Found on the Esquiline near the Auditorium of Maecenas.
AM//. 6/7777. v (1877)) p- 268, no. 10; /Vi?/, (1877), p. 85 ; C. L. Visconti,
AM//. 6*77772. viii (1880), p. 207 f., pi. xx (ears supplied) ; Reinach, ii. 760. 4 ; Helbigh
94°.
28. OLD WOMAN CARRYING A LAMB (pi. 50).
H. 1.13 m. Marble, ,^*7W^//<7. Restored: head, 1. arm from drapery, 1. hand,
little finger of r. hand, most of the forelegs of lamb and 1. hind leg, ears and mouth.
An old woman is carrying a lamb under her r. arm, with her coarse
mantle looped up over her 1. shoulder so as to reveal her r. breast and
side, steadying herself with a staff in her 1. hand. The sinews of the
neck show that the head must have been slightly turned to her r.; and
the missing parts have been rightly restored. It is a masterpiece of
and of scientific anatomy. The skeleton-framework of the torso is
strongly marked, to indicate the leanness of old age, yet there is warmth
and softness in the rendering of the flesh ; it is a sympathetic representa-
tion of an old woman still alert in spite of decay. The discovery and the
sympathetic rendering of such types was one of the original achievements
of the Hellenistic period, when divine and heroic art were on the wane
(see Collignon, 0^. rz'/., p. 564). The workmanship of the drapery and
the flesh suggest a Hellenistic rather than a later hand. Cf. no. 27.
Found on the Esquiline near the former Vicolo di San Matteo.
Azz//. 6*77772. iii (1875), p. 242 ; Overbeck, id, p. 356, fig. 206^; Collignon, ii,
p. 566, fig. 201; Reinach, ii. 334. 5; Brunn-Bruckmann, 393*; E. Loewy,
A/aj/z'^, p. 120, fig. 248; UelbigS, 933.
Alin. 11738 ; And. 1734 ; B. 16677 ; M. 731.
28 a. SEPULCHRAL OF M. ULPIUS SOPHRON (pi. 52).
H. .69 m., Br. -42 m. Parian marbie.
In the pediment an eagle with outstretched wings looking up to 1.
Rosette in the space between the eagle's beak and wing. In the space on
the 1. a palm-branch. Rough arro/^zh in shape of palmettes.
Found in the Suburra and given to the Museum by Castellani.
Gatti, AM//. (Ywz. xvi (1888), p. 43, no. 2036.
C. A Z. vi. 26624.
29. STATUE OF BOY (pi. ,50).
H. .90 m. (base *07 m.). Parian marble. Restored : tip of nose, r. arm from the
shoulder and r. hand, much of the base. Head put on, but antique and belonging,
surface much scraped.
Life-size statue, rightly interpreted and in the main rightly restored
as a boy throwing a nut in a game that was in vogue both in Greece and
L