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LYSISTRATOS. 519
ancient graveyard, outside the Dipylon.10^0 Some of these are of most beauti-
ful form, and are now to be seen in the museums of Athens. Among them
was the left arm of a man, from elbow to wrist. In this, the bone was still
left, around which the squeeze for the form of the arm was to be made.
Doubtless other such relics would have been preserved, were it not for the
perishable nature of plaster. These discoveries of objects, from the time fol-
lowing close on to the age of Lysistratos, go, moreover, to confirm Pliny's
statement with regard to the methods in portraiture of this sculptor, but do
not raise him any higher in our estimation as a genuine artist.
ancient graveyard, outside the Dipylon.10^0 Some of these are of most beauti-
ful form, and are now to be seen in the museums of Athens. Among them
was the left arm of a man, from elbow to wrist. In this, the bone was still
left, around which the squeeze for the form of the arm was to be made.
Doubtless other such relics would have been preserved, were it not for the
perishable nature of plaster. These discoveries of objects, from the time fol-
lowing close on to the age of Lysistratos, go, moreover, to confirm Pliny's
statement with regard to the methods in portraiture of this sculptor, but do
not raise him any higher in our estimation as a genuine artist.