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Archaic and archaicizing art.
and three single herms of the same type are to be found
in the Conservator! Palace, one with the head preserved, as
on a similar double berm at Palermo (Stuart Jones: Sculptures
in the Palazzo dei Conservator! p. 103 No. 9 and pl. 119).
Billedtavler pl. III. Reinach: Βέρ. Stat. IV 333, 4.
41. (I. N. 877). Arm fragment of a throne. M.
H. 0.16, 1. 0.25. Acquired 1897 from Alberici in Rome, formerly
at Villa Fulvio Fiorelli opposite S. Agnese fuori le mura.
On top of the arm can be seen the elbow of the large figure which
was originally seated on the throne. The female head below is not
that of a standing caryatid but, as the thickness and position of the
neck shows, of a recumbent sphinx, the height of which was about
0.40, judging from the observable proportions. As the arm is usually
a third of the height of the throne, this makes it about 1.20 m., so that
a seated figure would be a little more than twice the natural size.
The head is archaistic, an imitation of a late-archaic kore.
Below the diadem are two rows of cursorily drawn snail-shell
curls (cp. No. 33), and below these the hair is parted at the
middle of the forehead and falls in three shoulder locks on
each side, the back hair being compact. The upper eyelid has
a fold and cuts the lower one (cp. No. 34.).
There is a similar chair-arm fragment in the museum
at Geneva and, notwithstanding the slight deviations in the
dimensions, doubtless came from the same figure as the
Glyptotek’s (Deonna: Cat. No. 186).
Billedtavler pl. IV. N. C. G. 17. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p.
344, pl. 134 b.
42. (I. N. 440). Waterspout in the form of a dog’s forequarters. M.
L. 0.11. Acquired 1888 from Count Tyszkiewicz’s collection, Rome.
This is Roman work, the eyes somewhat archaicizing, and
the figure no doubt once had its place on one of the miniature
fountains (cf. Fr. Poulsen: Sculptures antiques de musees de
province espagnols p. 57 seq. on these fountains). It is in
the form of a rhyton, and one can imagine it held by a
satyr boy (1. c. fig. 89).
Billedtavler pl. IV.
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and three single herms of the same type are to be found
in the Conservator! Palace, one with the head preserved, as
on a similar double berm at Palermo (Stuart Jones: Sculptures
in the Palazzo dei Conservator! p. 103 No. 9 and pl. 119).
Billedtavler pl. III. Reinach: Βέρ. Stat. IV 333, 4.
41. (I. N. 877). Arm fragment of a throne. M.
H. 0.16, 1. 0.25. Acquired 1897 from Alberici in Rome, formerly
at Villa Fulvio Fiorelli opposite S. Agnese fuori le mura.
On top of the arm can be seen the elbow of the large figure which
was originally seated on the throne. The female head below is not
that of a standing caryatid but, as the thickness and position of the
neck shows, of a recumbent sphinx, the height of which was about
0.40, judging from the observable proportions. As the arm is usually
a third of the height of the throne, this makes it about 1.20 m., so that
a seated figure would be a little more than twice the natural size.
The head is archaistic, an imitation of a late-archaic kore.
Below the diadem are two rows of cursorily drawn snail-shell
curls (cp. No. 33), and below these the hair is parted at the
middle of the forehead and falls in three shoulder locks on
each side, the back hair being compact. The upper eyelid has
a fold and cuts the lower one (cp. No. 34.).
There is a similar chair-arm fragment in the museum
at Geneva and, notwithstanding the slight deviations in the
dimensions, doubtless came from the same figure as the
Glyptotek’s (Deonna: Cat. No. 186).
Billedtavler pl. IV. N. C. G. 17. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p.
344, pl. 134 b.
42. (I. N. 440). Waterspout in the form of a dog’s forequarters. M.
L. 0.11. Acquired 1888 from Count Tyszkiewicz’s collection, Rome.
This is Roman work, the eyes somewhat archaicizing, and
the figure no doubt once had its place on one of the miniature
fountains (cf. Fr. Poulsen: Sculptures antiques de musees de
province espagnols p. 57 seq. on these fountains). It is in
the form of a rhyton, and one can imagine it held by a
satyr boy (1. c. fig. 89).
Billedtavler pl. IV.
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