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GIARDINO 5-8
231
man of middle age looking half r. Hair and beard short and worked
with incised lines. Iris and pupil deeply incised. Forehead wrinkled.
Fair work of the first half of the third century A. D.
Provenance unknown.
6. HEROIC HEAD ON MODERN BUST (pi. 89).
H. .41 m. Parian marble. Restored : nose, lips, r. ear. The bust is modern.
Head of beardless youth looking up to 1. with a pathetic expression.
The hair is curly and arranged in a mass on the head, from which it falls
over the nape of the neck. Iris and pupil deeply incised.
Provenance unknown.
7. HEADLESS STATUETTE OF ASCLEPIUS (pi. 90).
H. .785 m. Parian marble. Unrestored.
Headless statuette of Asclepius standing on r. leg with 1. slightly
forward. He is dressed in a mantle which is thrown over the 1. shoulder
and across the back, covering the 1. arm and drawn round from the
r. over the lower limbs. R. arm broken at shoulder, 1. hand on hip
holding a fold of the mantle. On the r. thigh are remains of the staff.
The feet are shod with sandals secured by a strap and bow at the instep.
By the r. foot is a fragment of the serpent.
Moderate copy from an original of the fourth century B. c., of which
numerous reproductions, varying in details from this and from each other,
have been found at Epidaurus and elsewhere.
Found south-east of the (MsvAi HraWcrzh in Via Malghera.
AW/. dlw;. i (1872-3), p. 28$. 2.
8. STATUETTE OF SARAPIS (pi. 90).
Sarapis is seated, looking half r., on a throne with a high back. He
is dressed in a loose-sleeved tunic and a mantle which covers the 1.
shoulder and lower limbs. He wears sandals with straps, and bows at
the instep. The r. arm is broken at the elbow, the 1. above the elbow.
The 1. arm was originaliy supported on a sceptre, the end of which, in
the shape of a ball, still projects from the ground to 1. of throne : a broken
ywzA/A? projecting from 1. side of throne probably also belonged to this.
The beard is curly, the hair rendered in long straggling locks which
cover the ears and neck, and fall over the forehead. On the crown are
remains of the iwWzVs'. By his r. foot crouches Cerberus. The heads
are much injured. They are entwined by a serpent, and that in the
middle preserves something of the leonine character of the original.
Moderate work, deriving from the cult-statue at Alexandria (cf.
Amelung, AzAswzz'a, iii (1908), p. 91).
Found with a 'donna Isiaca' (1-21 high) and a headless female
statue with tunic and mantle (1-14 high, ' marmo greco') in a nymphaeum
on the Esquiline near S. Eusebio.
AM//. xi (1883), p. 261. 1 ; AW. 1883, p. 129. Cf. Visconti, AW.
AA-CWz. ii, pi. 1 (AzA/. (Aw;., rzY., cites this for comparison).
231
man of middle age looking half r. Hair and beard short and worked
with incised lines. Iris and pupil deeply incised. Forehead wrinkled.
Fair work of the first half of the third century A. D.
Provenance unknown.
6. HEROIC HEAD ON MODERN BUST (pi. 89).
H. .41 m. Parian marble. Restored : nose, lips, r. ear. The bust is modern.
Head of beardless youth looking up to 1. with a pathetic expression.
The hair is curly and arranged in a mass on the head, from which it falls
over the nape of the neck. Iris and pupil deeply incised.
Provenance unknown.
7. HEADLESS STATUETTE OF ASCLEPIUS (pi. 90).
H. .785 m. Parian marble. Unrestored.
Headless statuette of Asclepius standing on r. leg with 1. slightly
forward. He is dressed in a mantle which is thrown over the 1. shoulder
and across the back, covering the 1. arm and drawn round from the
r. over the lower limbs. R. arm broken at shoulder, 1. hand on hip
holding a fold of the mantle. On the r. thigh are remains of the staff.
The feet are shod with sandals secured by a strap and bow at the instep.
By the r. foot is a fragment of the serpent.
Moderate copy from an original of the fourth century B. c., of which
numerous reproductions, varying in details from this and from each other,
have been found at Epidaurus and elsewhere.
Found south-east of the (MsvAi HraWcrzh in Via Malghera.
AW/. dlw;. i (1872-3), p. 28$. 2.
8. STATUETTE OF SARAPIS (pi. 90).
Sarapis is seated, looking half r., on a throne with a high back. He
is dressed in a loose-sleeved tunic and a mantle which covers the 1.
shoulder and lower limbs. He wears sandals with straps, and bows at
the instep. The r. arm is broken at the elbow, the 1. above the elbow.
The 1. arm was originaliy supported on a sceptre, the end of which, in
the shape of a ball, still projects from the ground to 1. of throne : a broken
ywzA/A? projecting from 1. side of throne probably also belonged to this.
The beard is curly, the hair rendered in long straggling locks which
cover the ears and neck, and fall over the forehead. On the crown are
remains of the iwWzVs'. By his r. foot crouches Cerberus. The heads
are much injured. They are entwined by a serpent, and that in the
middle preserves something of the leonine character of the original.
Moderate work, deriving from the cult-statue at Alexandria (cf.
Amelung, AzAswzz'a, iii (1908), p. 91).
Found with a 'donna Isiaca' (1-21 high) and a headless female
statue with tunic and mantle (1-14 high, ' marmo greco') in a nymphaeum
on the Esquiline near S. Eusebio.
AM//. xi (1883), p. 261. 1 ; AW. 1883, p. 129. Cf. Visconti, AW.
AA-CWz. ii, pi. 1 (AzA/. (Aw;., rzY., cites this for comparison).