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EXPEDITION TO BEANCIIIDiE. 553
Terpsikles and the other sculptors of the Branchidse
figures belonged, it would not, I think, be safe to
assert anything positive. The proximity of Samos
to the Sacred Way, taken in connection with the
story in Diodorus already referred to, at first in-
clined me to believe that these sculptures were the
product of the school of Theodoros and Telekles.
On the other hand, it is a curious coincidence
that the earliest period to which these figures can be
assigned by the evidence of inscriptions,—namely,
about B.C. 580, coincides with the received date of
Dipcenos and Scyllis, Cretan sculptors, who, ac-
cording to Pliny, were the first artists of note who
worked in marble.w
w Plin. N. H. xxxvi. 4.
ii. 2 o
Terpsikles and the other sculptors of the Branchidse
figures belonged, it would not, I think, be safe to
assert anything positive. The proximity of Samos
to the Sacred Way, taken in connection with the
story in Diodorus already referred to, at first in-
clined me to believe that these sculptures were the
product of the school of Theodoros and Telekles.
On the other hand, it is a curious coincidence
that the earliest period to which these figures can be
assigned by the evidence of inscriptions,—namely,
about B.C. 580, coincides with the received date of
Dipcenos and Scyllis, Cretan sculptors, who, ac-
cording to Pliny, were the first artists of note who
worked in marble.w
w Plin. N. H. xxxvi. 4.
ii. 2 o