Jones, Henry Stuart [Hrsg.]; Palazzo dei Conservatori <Rom> [Hrsg.]: A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: the sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Text) (Oxford, 1926)

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2. MODERN RELIEF. CALYDONIAN BOAR-HUNT (pi. 112).
Renaissance work.
M.3274.
3. RELIEF. FORGING OF THE ARMS OF ACHILLES (pi. 112).
H. .78 m., L..g2m. Lunamarble. Restored(inplaster):(fromr.)topr. corner
of relief, including head and leg of peacock, tree-trunk, cuirass, and sword. The
whole of Hera except head, breast, r. arm, and lower three-quarters of sceptre. First
Cyclops : lower part of body from waist, r. hand, including part of hammer handle.
Second Cyclops : lower part of body from top of thighs, part of 1. hand, and hammer
handle. Third Cyclops : r. leg with drapery, 1. arm, r. hand, and hammer handle.
Shield, anvil, rock, and hammer lying against it. Hephaestus : nose, 1. arm, hammer
head. Athena : nose, 1. arm, top of spear, crest and peak of helmet. The greaves,
and patches on helmet under tree. Smaller patches elsewhere. Whole of moulded
frame (in marble): First Cyclops: 1. arm and most of hand. Hephaestus : r. arm
from shoulder.
Hephaestus and the Cyclopes are shown forging the shield of
Achilles in the presence of Athena and Hera, while the rest of the armour
lies ready under the trees that frame the composition. On the 1. the olive
tree with Athena's owl and aegis with in the branches, and the
crested helmet of Achilles beneath it decorated with a sphinx in low
relief. Between it and Hephaestus stands Athena with r. arm hanging by
her side and 1. arm raised, holding spear. She wears a Corinthian helmet
with rams' heads below the eyes and Doric rAhbTz girt above the overfall,
without aegis. Llephaestus is seated on a rock holding the rim of the
shield in his 1. hand and raising a hammer in his right. He wears a
conical cap and workman s which leaves his r. shoulder and breast
bare. Round the anvil in the centre stand three Cyclopes. The 1. raises
a hammer over his head with both arms and swings his body to his r.,
the central Cyclops swings his hammer the opposite way; and their
companion on the r. turns his back on the spectator and holds his hammer
right over his head and down his back. A projection on his back may
be a tail. All three Cyclopes are nude save for loin-cloths and they have
a single eye outlined on their foreheads, the normal eyes being closed.
Next to this group comes Hera crowned and veiled, wearing a Doric
r/h'Aw and A77M/A72, with a sceptre in her raised r. hand. On the r. is a
tree with Hera's peacock in the branches, and below it the corslet and
sword of Achilles.
The relief, which is of good work, seems to date from the Hadrianic
period. The use of statuary types for Hera and Athena may be paralleled
from the Spada reliefs and others published by Wace, Z?. A. -A. v,
pp. 167 ff.; cf. esp. pp. 198 tf. The central group is more probably derived
from a painting, cf. the fresco from Pompeii (Helbig, ^77^777^/^, 259,
Naples, GzAA, 1369).
Found near Sta. Bibiana in the Vigna Belardi, between the so-called
Temple of Minerva Medica and the Porta Maggiore.
2?%//. (Gw;, vi (1878), pi. X, pp. 142-52 ; Reinach, 189. i ; Saglio, s. v.
p. 1694, fig. 2258 (central group); Helbig^, 587 ; K.Lehmann-Hartleben,
Aa/hzzj-MMfg (1926), p. 44 f.
Alin. 11739 ; M. 3273.
4. BACCHIC PROCESSION (pi. 112).
H.-74 m., L. 1.25 m. Luna marble. Restored (in plaster): hips of the
Maenad, piece in middle of body of satyr on 1. Lower and upper mouldings, patches