DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.52591#0103
METOPES OF THE SICYONIAN TREASURY 87
and horns of the bulls, is dark red with incised patterns.
On their feet they wear pretty sandals with laces and front-
flap. The long pigtails in two cases have the pearl neck-
lace form, in the other they are grooved. The two in front
have their heads in profile, the third looks out of the relief.
Only in the case of the central figure is the face at all
preserved; it has a thin-lipped, slightly raised mouth, the
lines of which meet a downward cheek-fold, the eye has
Fig. 25.—The Dioscuri and Apharidae.
long lids, the cheek is quite smooth, very little arched,
with sharply bounded lower jaw. But all this can only be
seen in the original.
In the intervals between the walking men and in front of the
first, bulls are advancing by threes, the two hindmost in
each group with heads in profile, the front with its small
head turned round. To secure distinctness, the inside
bulls are larger, a defiance of perspective which is known in
primitive art, both in archaic Greek reliefs and in Siennese
and horns of the bulls, is dark red with incised patterns.
On their feet they wear pretty sandals with laces and front-
flap. The long pigtails in two cases have the pearl neck-
lace form, in the other they are grooved. The two in front
have their heads in profile, the third looks out of the relief.
Only in the case of the central figure is the face at all
preserved; it has a thin-lipped, slightly raised mouth, the
lines of which meet a downward cheek-fold, the eye has
Fig. 25.—The Dioscuri and Apharidae.
long lids, the cheek is quite smooth, very little arched,
with sharply bounded lower jaw. But all this can only be
seen in the original.
In the intervals between the walking men and in front of the
first, bulls are advancing by threes, the two hindmost in
each group with heads in profile, the front with its small
head turned round. To secure distinctness, the inside
bulls are larger, a defiance of perspective which is known in
primitive art, both in archaic Greek reliefs and in Siennese