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CORINTHIAN SCULPTURE 247
Corinth are all later than this:1 two of them Langlotz attributes to Sicyon
(nos. 6, pi. 15, 1, and 18), one to Argos (no. 13, pi. 25, 1), one to an Ionian
School (pp. 26 and 170, pi. 73,1); one goes to Corinth; the last is omitted, but
obviously goes with this (British Museum 243, Walters, cat. pi. 4). That these
are all Corinthian I should not care to affirm, but it certainly seems unlikely
that the majority of them were imported. They show a variety of styles, but
it is useless in the present state of our knowledge to debate whether there was
room for these within a single centre. Further discoveries will undoubtedly
throw light on this problem. Quite recently graves containing bronzes of
the period in question are said to have been excavated at Corinth.
1 Two late mirrors with handles in the form of an Eph. Arch. loc. cit.
Ionic capital, crowned by palmettes, may also be [Since the above was written an interesting lime-
mentioned here: Eph. Arch. 1884, pi. 6,4 (de Ridder, stone head, perhaps from a metope of the temple of
B. Soc. Arch. 34, no. 135) and A. Anz. 1928, 445-6, Apollo, has been published in A.J.A. 1928, 489.
fig. 116; both are from Corinth, as is also a mirror The connexion of this head with the head from
of different type (with a columnar handle, ending Mycenae and the Louvre head, pi. 47, 3-5 is clear,
in palmette and volutes) in Dresden (Z.V. 1434). but it is no doubt later, and probably belongs to the
With the first two of these cf. N.Y. Bronzes 255, early sixth century; note the strongly curving brows
no. 747, from Cyprus, and the others published in (cf. p. 235).]
Corinth are all later than this:1 two of them Langlotz attributes to Sicyon
(nos. 6, pi. 15, 1, and 18), one to Argos (no. 13, pi. 25, 1), one to an Ionian
School (pp. 26 and 170, pi. 73,1); one goes to Corinth; the last is omitted, but
obviously goes with this (British Museum 243, Walters, cat. pi. 4). That these
are all Corinthian I should not care to affirm, but it certainly seems unlikely
that the majority of them were imported. They show a variety of styles, but
it is useless in the present state of our knowledge to debate whether there was
room for these within a single centre. Further discoveries will undoubtedly
throw light on this problem. Quite recently graves containing bronzes of
the period in question are said to have been excavated at Corinth.
1 Two late mirrors with handles in the form of an Eph. Arch. loc. cit.
Ionic capital, crowned by palmettes, may also be [Since the above was written an interesting lime-
mentioned here: Eph. Arch. 1884, pi. 6,4 (de Ridder, stone head, perhaps from a metope of the temple of
B. Soc. Arch. 34, no. 135) and A. Anz. 1928, 445-6, Apollo, has been published in A.J.A. 1928, 489.
fig. 116; both are from Corinth, as is also a mirror The connexion of this head with the head from
of different type (with a columnar handle, ending Mycenae and the Louvre head, pi. 47, 3-5 is clear,
in palmette and volutes) in Dresden (Z.V. 1434). but it is no doubt later, and probably belongs to the
With the first two of these cf. N.Y. Bronzes 255, early sixth century; note the strongly curving brows
no. 747, from Cyprus, and the others published in (cf. p. 235).]