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EXPEDITION TO BRANCHED^. 551
interesting corroboration of the well-known story-
told byDiodorus/ that the Samian artist Theodoros
made one half of a statue in his workshop at Samos,
while his brother, Telekles, made the other half at
Ephesus ; and that the same canon of proportions
was observed so exactly by the two brothers work-
ing independently, that the two halves of the statue
were subsequently found to tally exactly.
This canon, according to Diodorus, they obtained
from Egypt. Though it has been somewhat the
fashion among recent writers on Greek art to re-
gard this statement as mere legend, I see no
reason for doubting that it embodies the general fact
that certain Greek sculptors of Asia Minor studied
the principles of their art in Egypt as early as the
seventh, or perhaps, the eighth century B.C.
In asserting that the Branchidao statues were
executed more or less under Egyptian influence,
I would note at the same time certain peculiarities
in the costume and treatment which show that
these sculptures were the work of Hellenic artists.
p. 322, B), of a statue of Athene made of emerald, four cubits high,
the work of Dipoenus and Scyllis, which Sesostris, king of Egypt,
gave to Kleobulus, tyrant of Lindas. (See Brnnn, Geschichte d. Gr.
Kunst, i. p. 4o, who thinks that this story may refer to some real
work by these artists.) We know from Herodotus that Amasis
dedicated two statues at Lindus, and M. Salzmann has recently
found in tombs near that place a statuette representing an
Egyptian deity, and other objects similar to those discovered at
Gamirus ; the tradition preserved by Cedrenus may, therefore, be
regarded as an additional proof of the connection of the early
Greek artists with Egypt.
1 Diodor. i. 98 ; cf. Athenagoras, Leg. pro Christ, p. 61. See
Brunn, Geschichte d. Griech. Kuenstler, i. p. 3(1.
interesting corroboration of the well-known story-
told byDiodorus/ that the Samian artist Theodoros
made one half of a statue in his workshop at Samos,
while his brother, Telekles, made the other half at
Ephesus ; and that the same canon of proportions
was observed so exactly by the two brothers work-
ing independently, that the two halves of the statue
were subsequently found to tally exactly.
This canon, according to Diodorus, they obtained
from Egypt. Though it has been somewhat the
fashion among recent writers on Greek art to re-
gard this statement as mere legend, I see no
reason for doubting that it embodies the general fact
that certain Greek sculptors of Asia Minor studied
the principles of their art in Egypt as early as the
seventh, or perhaps, the eighth century B.C.
In asserting that the Branchidao statues were
executed more or less under Egyptian influence,
I would note at the same time certain peculiarities
in the costume and treatment which show that
these sculptures were the work of Hellenic artists.
p. 322, B), of a statue of Athene made of emerald, four cubits high,
the work of Dipoenus and Scyllis, which Sesostris, king of Egypt,
gave to Kleobulus, tyrant of Lindas. (See Brnnn, Geschichte d. Gr.
Kunst, i. p. 4o, who thinks that this story may refer to some real
work by these artists.) We know from Herodotus that Amasis
dedicated two statues at Lindus, and M. Salzmann has recently
found in tombs near that place a statuette representing an
Egyptian deity, and other objects similar to those discovered at
Gamirus ; the tradition preserved by Cedrenus may, therefore, be
regarded as an additional proof of the connection of the early
Greek artists with Egypt.
1 Diodor. i. 98 ; cf. Athenagoras, Leg. pro Christ, p. 61. See
Brunn, Geschichte d. Griech. Kuenstler, i. p. 3(1.