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SALA DEI MONUMENTI ARCAICI 15-17
15. BEARDED HEAD OF HERM (pi. 83).
H. -45 m. Marble, ^*7*^r^^W. Restored : nose, r. eyebrow and eye, lower half
of beard, shoulder-locks from ears, lower part of hair at back, the herm.
A plain band coniines the hair, which is arranged round the face in
a triple row of spiral curls, and falls at the sides in long, wavy strands.
The head is evidently a variant, with smoother beard, of the type of
terminal Hermes, best represented by the copy found at Pergamon (Mus.
of Constantinople), which, according to the inscription, reproduces the
Hermes Propylaios of Alcamenes (Winter in ^4A7*/%77z<?7* W73 A<77y%77zo7z,
vii, p. 558 ; see on JAy. C<?/t?77z&, 18). Late formal copy, probably
an ordinary piece of decorative sculpture.
Provenance unknown.
16. STATUE OF NIKE OF ARCHAIC TYPE (pi. 80).
H. 1-39 m. Parian marble. Unrestored. The statue as it now stands is in
one piece. Missing : head (originally inserted in a deep socket), toes, greater part of
wings. Dowel-holes on the 1. wing show that most of it was once made in a separate
piece and fastened on, perhaps after an ancient break, as the remnant of the other
wing, although a little longer, shows no signs of a join. The feet and salient parts
of the surface are much weathered. The long feathers were probably added in paint.
The feet are extended downwards and not hat on the ground, the
body is rigidly upright, the hands hold down the overfall of the rA'/Wz
against a draught blowing it up. This pose shows a motive of alighting
after flight, not unparalleled in archaic representations of Nike, and well
shown in a statue from Epidaurus in the National Museum in Athens in
the developed Attic manner (Kavvadias, no. 160). The figure is clad in
a simple Doric rAz'Aw of heavy material, fastened up both sides and
brooched on the shoulders. The brooches were inserted in bronze. The
folds of the AzAvz closely envelop the legs, but the effect of stiffness is
not formal; it is produced rather by the natural fall of heavy drapery.
The folds are quaintly puckered up from the feet, which are thus fully
disclosed. The statue has been compared with the sculptures of the
temple of Zeus at Olympia, though Studniczka and Helbig rightly con-
sider it rather older. Furtwangler suggests that it may have been an
0^7*0^7*7077, and adduces parallels from the sculptures of Olympia to the long,
deep-cut, rounded folds. The r. hand deserves special attention for its
simple and natural rendering. The work might be attributed to a
Peloponnesian school of the first half of the fifth century. But the
inorganic nature of the folds over the feet, the insetting of the head, and
the direction of the wings, which are neither parallel nor at right angles to
the frontal plane, as we should expect, but at an angle of qg°, may
indicate that we have here an archaistic adaptation of an early type.
Found in the Horti Sallustiani, near the so-called Nymphaeum.
AW/. (Aw. xiv (1886), p. 51 ; AA?/. (1886), p. 22; Collignon, i, p. 146,
note 2 ; Brunn-Bruckmann, 263 ; Furtwangler, A/27AA73 A/". AA277272 <%37y<f/'7'a<r<%/
(1893), p. 81 ; Reinach, ii. 383. 4; Bulle, in Roscher, art. AAA?, p. 333, fig. 13 ;
Studniczka. (1898), pi. IV, hef. 22, pp. 14, 13, 18; loubin, .&r27/WM7'g
(1901), p. 168, fig. 57 ; HelbigS, 981.
iy. BEARDED HERM (pi. 83).
H. -418 m. Pentelic marble. Restored (in plaster) : nose, some locks of fringe
and beard, end of 1. shoulder-lock, r. shoulder-lock from ear, most of herm.
Good decorative copy of the Hermes after Alcamenes (see no. ig
SALA DEI MONUMENTI ARCAICI 15-17
15. BEARDED HEAD OF HERM (pi. 83).
H. -45 m. Marble, ^*7*^r^^W. Restored : nose, r. eyebrow and eye, lower half
of beard, shoulder-locks from ears, lower part of hair at back, the herm.
A plain band coniines the hair, which is arranged round the face in
a triple row of spiral curls, and falls at the sides in long, wavy strands.
The head is evidently a variant, with smoother beard, of the type of
terminal Hermes, best represented by the copy found at Pergamon (Mus.
of Constantinople), which, according to the inscription, reproduces the
Hermes Propylaios of Alcamenes (Winter in ^4A7*/%77z<?7* W73 A<77y%77zo7z,
vii, p. 558 ; see on JAy. C<?/t?77z&, 18). Late formal copy, probably
an ordinary piece of decorative sculpture.
Provenance unknown.
16. STATUE OF NIKE OF ARCHAIC TYPE (pi. 80).
H. 1-39 m. Parian marble. Unrestored. The statue as it now stands is in
one piece. Missing : head (originally inserted in a deep socket), toes, greater part of
wings. Dowel-holes on the 1. wing show that most of it was once made in a separate
piece and fastened on, perhaps after an ancient break, as the remnant of the other
wing, although a little longer, shows no signs of a join. The feet and salient parts
of the surface are much weathered. The long feathers were probably added in paint.
The feet are extended downwards and not hat on the ground, the
body is rigidly upright, the hands hold down the overfall of the rA'/Wz
against a draught blowing it up. This pose shows a motive of alighting
after flight, not unparalleled in archaic representations of Nike, and well
shown in a statue from Epidaurus in the National Museum in Athens in
the developed Attic manner (Kavvadias, no. 160). The figure is clad in
a simple Doric rAz'Aw of heavy material, fastened up both sides and
brooched on the shoulders. The brooches were inserted in bronze. The
folds of the AzAvz closely envelop the legs, but the effect of stiffness is
not formal; it is produced rather by the natural fall of heavy drapery.
The folds are quaintly puckered up from the feet, which are thus fully
disclosed. The statue has been compared with the sculptures of the
temple of Zeus at Olympia, though Studniczka and Helbig rightly con-
sider it rather older. Furtwangler suggests that it may have been an
0^7*0^7*7077, and adduces parallels from the sculptures of Olympia to the long,
deep-cut, rounded folds. The r. hand deserves special attention for its
simple and natural rendering. The work might be attributed to a
Peloponnesian school of the first half of the fifth century. But the
inorganic nature of the folds over the feet, the insetting of the head, and
the direction of the wings, which are neither parallel nor at right angles to
the frontal plane, as we should expect, but at an angle of qg°, may
indicate that we have here an archaistic adaptation of an early type.
Found in the Horti Sallustiani, near the so-called Nymphaeum.
AW/. (Aw. xiv (1886), p. 51 ; AA?/. (1886), p. 22; Collignon, i, p. 146,
note 2 ; Brunn-Bruckmann, 263 ; Furtwangler, A/27AA73 A/". AA277272 <%37y<f/'7'a<r<%/
(1893), p. 81 ; Reinach, ii. 383. 4; Bulle, in Roscher, art. AAA?, p. 333, fig. 13 ;
Studniczka. (1898), pi. IV, hef. 22, pp. 14, 13, 18; loubin, .&r27/WM7'g
(1901), p. 168, fig. 57 ; HelbigS, 981.
iy. BEARDED HERM (pi. 83).
H. -418 m. Pentelic marble. Restored (in plaster) : nose, some locks of fringe
and beard, end of 1. shoulder-lock, r. shoulder-lock from ear, most of herm.
Good decorative copy of the Hermes after Alcamenes (see no. ig