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SALA DEI MONUMENT! ARCAICI 2ia-24
21 a. STRIATED SARCOPHAGUS OF BALLIA (pi. 86).
H. .30 m., Br. -37 m., L. 1-39 m. Marble, Slightly patched in
plaster.
The inscription occupies the held usually reserved for decoration.
In the courtyard of no. 3 Via Celsa early in the nineteenth century,
then in the hands of the dealer Fossati (1849).
A C. xiv. 1499.
22. SHAFT OF CANDELABRUM (?) (pi. 86).
H. 1-33 m. Luna marble. Restored (in plaster) : upper third of shaft below
pine-cone.
An ornamental tapering shaft rising out of a reel-shaped support on
a square basis with rounded corners. The surface of the shaft is orna-
mented with overlapping diamond-shaped fronds with little clusters of
three raised berries on each. It is crowned by a pine-cone resting on
a ronVAz and surmounted by a rosette.
Provenance unknown.
23. STATUETTE, REPLICA OF THE ' ATHENA OF VELLETRI'
(pi. 85).
H. .78 m. Luna marble.- Restored (in plaster) : head, r. arm with spear from
shoulder, 1. arm from elbow.
The statuette stands on a moulded plinth, semicircular behind and
straight in front, with a yrc/ziz between two /crz'. The weight is on the 1.
leg, while the r. leg is drawn back and to the side and bent at the knee.
The 1. arm, extended from the elbow, probably held a yW<?r<7, the r. is
raised and rests on the spear. The goddess wears a Corinthian helmet
and a narrow aegis above a Doric zAz'Aw, girded without or over-
fall ; an ^z'zzzzz/zbzz hangs over her 1. shoulder and round her lower limbs,
doubled over in a triangular flap in front. It is tucked under and held by
the 1. elbow. The type is well known from many replicas (cf. Furtwangler,
AAIFi, p. 303 = A/A., p. 141, note), of which the Athena (found at Velletri)
in the Louvre is the most famous, and belongs to the second half of the
fifth century. Furtwangler judges it to be later than the Parthenos, and
to have been an important statue standing in Athens (cf. Coin of Athens,
Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, /Vzz?72. (Awn Azzzzy., PI. Z, no. 22, p. 133).
He attributes it to Cresilas, largely on the ground of the resemblance to
the portrait of Pericles. This statuette is a conventional mechanical
copy with lifeless deeply-cut fluting for the folds of the drapery, and the
body tilted too much to its r. The legs are longer than in the finer
replicas. Provenance unknown.
Furtwangler, A7fU., pp. 303 ff., = ALP (1893), p. 141, note 2.
24. HEXAGONAL SHAFT OF CANDELABRUM (?) (pi. 86).
FI. 1-678 m. Luna marble. Broken twice near base, and joined with plaster.
A tall hexagonal shaft only slightly tapering rises from a square base
which rests on a three-stepped plinth. The lower two-thirds are deco-
rated on alternate sides with a bulrush and a /Agr-sw in low relief treated
conventionally, in long oval panels. Above this is a fringe of long
triangular leaves, and at the top three yAwzzzzz/zz are caught up with bows
SALA DEI MONUMENT! ARCAICI 2ia-24
21 a. STRIATED SARCOPHAGUS OF BALLIA (pi. 86).
H. .30 m., Br. -37 m., L. 1-39 m. Marble, Slightly patched in
plaster.
The inscription occupies the held usually reserved for decoration.
In the courtyard of no. 3 Via Celsa early in the nineteenth century,
then in the hands of the dealer Fossati (1849).
A C. xiv. 1499.
22. SHAFT OF CANDELABRUM (?) (pi. 86).
H. 1-33 m. Luna marble. Restored (in plaster) : upper third of shaft below
pine-cone.
An ornamental tapering shaft rising out of a reel-shaped support on
a square basis with rounded corners. The surface of the shaft is orna-
mented with overlapping diamond-shaped fronds with little clusters of
three raised berries on each. It is crowned by a pine-cone resting on
a ronVAz and surmounted by a rosette.
Provenance unknown.
23. STATUETTE, REPLICA OF THE ' ATHENA OF VELLETRI'
(pi. 85).
H. .78 m. Luna marble.- Restored (in plaster) : head, r. arm with spear from
shoulder, 1. arm from elbow.
The statuette stands on a moulded plinth, semicircular behind and
straight in front, with a yrc/ziz between two /crz'. The weight is on the 1.
leg, while the r. leg is drawn back and to the side and bent at the knee.
The 1. arm, extended from the elbow, probably held a yW<?r<7, the r. is
raised and rests on the spear. The goddess wears a Corinthian helmet
and a narrow aegis above a Doric zAz'Aw, girded without or over-
fall ; an ^z'zzzzz/zbzz hangs over her 1. shoulder and round her lower limbs,
doubled over in a triangular flap in front. It is tucked under and held by
the 1. elbow. The type is well known from many replicas (cf. Furtwangler,
AAIFi, p. 303 = A/A., p. 141, note), of which the Athena (found at Velletri)
in the Louvre is the most famous, and belongs to the second half of the
fifth century. Furtwangler judges it to be later than the Parthenos, and
to have been an important statue standing in Athens (cf. Coin of Athens,
Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, /Vzz?72. (Awn Azzzzy., PI. Z, no. 22, p. 133).
He attributes it to Cresilas, largely on the ground of the resemblance to
the portrait of Pericles. This statuette is a conventional mechanical
copy with lifeless deeply-cut fluting for the folds of the drapery, and the
body tilted too much to its r. The legs are longer than in the finer
replicas. Provenance unknown.
Furtwangler, A7fU., pp. 303 ff., = ALP (1893), p. 141, note 2.
24. HEXAGONAL SHAFT OF CANDELABRUM (?) (pi. 86).
FI. 1-678 m. Luna marble. Broken twice near base, and joined with plaster.
A tall hexagonal shaft only slightly tapering rises from a square base
which rests on a three-stepped plinth. The lower two-thirds are deco-
rated on alternate sides with a bulrush and a /Agr-sw in low relief treated
conventionally, in long oval panels. Above this is a fringe of long
triangular leaves, and at the top three yAwzzzzz/zz are caught up with bows