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Graeco-Roman art.
The statue has been restored after coins of the Empire
period, which exhibit this figure employed as Demeter
and characterized by corn-ears and torch (Overbeck: Kunst-
mythologie der Demeter, Miinztafel VIII, 10-11), but it is
just as possible that figures of this kind were employed
for portrait statues of empresses or private persons, so much
the more as some of them had themselves represented as
Ceres with corn-ear and poppies (cf. No. 552 a). In our
case if the head had been preserved it might have permitted*
definite identification.
The statue type itself has points of contact with works
of the close of the 5th cent. B. C., and related figures are
employed as Demeter e. g. in a statue at Nimes (Arndt-Amel-
ung 1412), whereas in other instances the absence of the head
makes a decision impossible (Arndt-Am elung 472).
Fortuna, Cybele and other goddesses may also be sculptured
in the same manner. There is even a sitting statue in Madrid
(Arndt-Amelung 1768-70), the head with an unmistakable
likeness to indubitable portraits of Livia, which may be
cited as a parallel.
They are all Roman works of the Empire period.
Billedtavler pl. XI. Reinach: Rep. Stat. I 209,2 and II, 1,245,4. N. C. G. 68.
Arndt-Amelung text of 1412. Hekler in Munchener archaol. Studien dem An-
denken Furtwanglers gewidmet p. 146. Roschers Lexikon s. v. Kora col. 1359.
L. Curtius in Deutsche Literaturzeitung 1924 p. 429. Johnson, Corinth IX p.
48 under No. 55. Kaschnitz-Weinberg No. 115. Mustilli: Museo Mussolini p. 168.
142. (I. N. 555). Demeter or other goddess. Head. M.
II. 0.33, of the antique part 0.30. The entire right side of the face
from the temple, with the eye, nose, mouth and chin restored in
plaster, as well as most of the neck. Part of the back of the head and
the veil were applied and are also missing. The eyes are hollow for
inlay. Acquired from a dealer in Rome.
The diadem and the head-veil suggest a goddess, and there
is a certain likeness to a statue of Demeter from Cherchel,
apparently a Roman copy from a Greek original by Pheidias
or his school (H. Schrader: Phidias p. 48 seq., figs. 17 and
20. P. Gauckler: Musee de Cherchel pl. V). Another closely
related is a Demeter statue in the Rotunda of the Vatican
(Lippold, Vat. Kat. HI I pl. 38. V. H. Poulsen, Collections III
1942 p. 71. Oester. Jahresh. 1940 p. 172 seq.). There is a
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8*
The statue has been restored after coins of the Empire
period, which exhibit this figure employed as Demeter
and characterized by corn-ears and torch (Overbeck: Kunst-
mythologie der Demeter, Miinztafel VIII, 10-11), but it is
just as possible that figures of this kind were employed
for portrait statues of empresses or private persons, so much
the more as some of them had themselves represented as
Ceres with corn-ear and poppies (cf. No. 552 a). In our
case if the head had been preserved it might have permitted*
definite identification.
The statue type itself has points of contact with works
of the close of the 5th cent. B. C., and related figures are
employed as Demeter e. g. in a statue at Nimes (Arndt-Amel-
ung 1412), whereas in other instances the absence of the head
makes a decision impossible (Arndt-Am elung 472).
Fortuna, Cybele and other goddesses may also be sculptured
in the same manner. There is even a sitting statue in Madrid
(Arndt-Amelung 1768-70), the head with an unmistakable
likeness to indubitable portraits of Livia, which may be
cited as a parallel.
They are all Roman works of the Empire period.
Billedtavler pl. XI. Reinach: Rep. Stat. I 209,2 and II, 1,245,4. N. C. G. 68.
Arndt-Amelung text of 1412. Hekler in Munchener archaol. Studien dem An-
denken Furtwanglers gewidmet p. 146. Roschers Lexikon s. v. Kora col. 1359.
L. Curtius in Deutsche Literaturzeitung 1924 p. 429. Johnson, Corinth IX p.
48 under No. 55. Kaschnitz-Weinberg No. 115. Mustilli: Museo Mussolini p. 168.
142. (I. N. 555). Demeter or other goddess. Head. M.
II. 0.33, of the antique part 0.30. The entire right side of the face
from the temple, with the eye, nose, mouth and chin restored in
plaster, as well as most of the neck. Part of the back of the head and
the veil were applied and are also missing. The eyes are hollow for
inlay. Acquired from a dealer in Rome.
The diadem and the head-veil suggest a goddess, and there
is a certain likeness to a statue of Demeter from Cherchel,
apparently a Roman copy from a Greek original by Pheidias
or his school (H. Schrader: Phidias p. 48 seq., figs. 17 and
20. P. Gauckler: Musee de Cherchel pl. V). Another closely
related is a Demeter statue in the Rotunda of the Vatican
(Lippold, Vat. Kat. HI I pl. 38. V. H. Poulsen, Collections III
1942 p. 71. Oester. Jahresh. 1940 p. 172 seq.). There is a
115
8*