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on their heads in the festal procession of the Panathencea. The
beautiful manner in which this mode of carrying burdens displays the
lines and curves of the female form is well known to all who have
travelled in Italy, and may be seen in the matchless frieze of the
Parthenon, and in the Caryatid from the Pandroseion, in the British
Museum. The three variations in this style are : I. that of the Cary-
atid just mentioned—a Roman copy of which may be seen in the
Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican—in which both arms hang down ; II.
that in which either right or left arm is raised to support the burden ;1
and III. that in which both arms are raised, as in the well-known figures
in the Villa Albani. The main features of these charming statues are
the same in all: the head is held erect, the hair flows down the back,
their dress is the long dignified Ionic chiton with the diploi'dion falling
over the hips ; and they wear in their faces an expression of gentle
piety, mingled with the proud consciousness of their sacred character. -
Other works of Scopas were a figure of Hestia (Vesta)3 enthroned
between two KafnrT?ipss (metae) as some, Xa^trTripes (candelabra) as
others read, which Pliny4 saw in the Servilian gardens at Rome ; * and
a Hernia of Hermes. The custom of setting up Hermse at cross-roads
and in the streets of Athens is well known, and is brought into historic
prominence by Thucydides' striking account of their defacement by
unknown hands before the fatal expedition to Sicily." These Henna;
consisted of busts (originally of Hermes himself, but subsequently of
any deity) on quadrangular pillars. The}- were so numerous in Athens
after the time of the Pisistratida;, that they gave their name to a street.
Most of them were, of course, of rude workmanship, and it was evidently
thought a condescension on the part of Scopas to furnish an image of
this kiird for the street.''

' Clarac, plate 443, 444-
Cicero [Perm, iv. 3) mentions two
small bronze Canephori among the plunder
of Verres.

* Hestia was originally synonymous with
^aia (the earth). Vid. Macrobius, Sat. i.23: -

Kai Vu.ta /jL»}t<q, 'Kaiiav St oi ffO(f>&(
Bpo7u»i' Kakovaiv qrteVn*' **«' at&tpi.

°vid, fast. vi. 267 :—

Vesta eadem est quae terra.

* xxxvi. 25

' Urliehs, Skofat, p. 53. Stark (in Phi-

lologus, xxi. 423) supports the reading, Aa^ir-
rripes (candelabra), and denies all connexion
between Hestia and the Gymnasium.
" Thucyd. vi. 27.

• Anthol. Gr. iv. 165. 233 in Urlicns,
Skopas, p. 56. His work bore the inscrip-
tion :—

*fl Aw<rTf, pquji Twc iroAAun' fen
fljfpw <?*u>p*tr, (i^ii yap 7e\l'a ±KUJTa.

' O, my good friend, do nor suppose I hat you are
looking ar one of rhe common herd of Herinye, for I
am rhe work of Scopas !'