Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

98 EXTANT MONUMENTS OF FIFTH CENTURY B.C.

CHAPTER IX.

extant monuments of the first half of
the fifth century b.c.

The Seated Figure oe Athene

(Fig- 30,

at Athens, perhaps by Endceus, of which we have spoken above,1 is

by some writers assigned to the very
beginning of this period. It may, how-
ever, be of-a still earlier date. The
Goddess is recognised by the aegis,
which was probably painted.

One of the most interesting speci-
mens of Attic archaism is the marble

Sphinx from Spata,

a village 2 in Attica, in which so many
interesting antiquities have been recently
found cognate in character to those
discovered by Dr. Schliemann in the
graves of Mycenae. This curious work
of Attic art is now in the Ministcro
del Culto in Athens.
The oldest Attic relief probably which has come down to us is
the head of a

Fig. 31.

archaic figure of ATHENE.

• About ten mile* E. of Athena,