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Graeco-Roman art.
replica of our head at Beynuhnen (B. Schweitzer: Antiken
in ostpreuss. Privatbesitz p. 163 seqq., IV, pl. VIII. Schweitzer
erroneously gives the Glyptotek’s head No. 141 instead of
142).
Both heads may be direct copies of a Greek work; it is
more probable, however, that they are independent Roman
works with some association with the Greek art of the 5th
cent, like No. 101 (see also the head at Rossie Priory, Fr.
Poulsen: Greek and Roman Portraits p. 24 seq.).
Billedtavler pl. XI. Arndl-Amelung 3887-88 (Fr. Poulsen).
143. (I. N. 839). Fragment of relief: Demeter surrounded by
girls. M.
H. 0.90, W. 0.26. Penlelic marble. The relief came from Rome and
is broken on the left. The back is remarkably smooth. The noses of the
figures are broken off.
This is a fragment of a large votive relief. On the left is
the left arm with torch of the seated Demeter; two puntelloes
above the head of the tallest girl secured the torch, which
reached right up to the top edge, its upper part obviously
being applied. Around Demeter’s throne stand girls with
torches; they are not mystai, for then they would be carrying
βάχχοι, bunches of myrtle branches; they are maid servants
or adorants. Their heads are wreathed, curiously enough
not with myrtle but, as it seems, with laurel.
In spite of its slovenly execution the relief is of much
interest and, seemingly, Hellenistic work of the 2nd cent.
B. C., contemporaneous with the well-known relief with the
apotheosis of Homer (Watzinger: Relief des Archelaos von
Priene).
Related in style, though doubtless a little later, is the
remarkable relief in Eleusis donated by Lacrateides about
100 B. C. (Lawrence: Later Greek Sculpture pp. 46, 124
and pl. 79).
Billedtavler XI. N. C. G. 146. Martin P. Nilsson, Die Antike 18, 1942 p. 22.
144. (I. N. 1480). Relief with Demeter. Terracotta.
H. 0.38. Acquired in 1896 in Rome and stated to have come from
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replica of our head at Beynuhnen (B. Schweitzer: Antiken
in ostpreuss. Privatbesitz p. 163 seqq., IV, pl. VIII. Schweitzer
erroneously gives the Glyptotek’s head No. 141 instead of
142).
Both heads may be direct copies of a Greek work; it is
more probable, however, that they are independent Roman
works with some association with the Greek art of the 5th
cent, like No. 101 (see also the head at Rossie Priory, Fr.
Poulsen: Greek and Roman Portraits p. 24 seq.).
Billedtavler pl. XI. Arndl-Amelung 3887-88 (Fr. Poulsen).
143. (I. N. 839). Fragment of relief: Demeter surrounded by
girls. M.
H. 0.90, W. 0.26. Penlelic marble. The relief came from Rome and
is broken on the left. The back is remarkably smooth. The noses of the
figures are broken off.
This is a fragment of a large votive relief. On the left is
the left arm with torch of the seated Demeter; two puntelloes
above the head of the tallest girl secured the torch, which
reached right up to the top edge, its upper part obviously
being applied. Around Demeter’s throne stand girls with
torches; they are not mystai, for then they would be carrying
βάχχοι, bunches of myrtle branches; they are maid servants
or adorants. Their heads are wreathed, curiously enough
not with myrtle but, as it seems, with laurel.
In spite of its slovenly execution the relief is of much
interest and, seemingly, Hellenistic work of the 2nd cent.
B. C., contemporaneous with the well-known relief with the
apotheosis of Homer (Watzinger: Relief des Archelaos von
Priene).
Related in style, though doubtless a little later, is the
remarkable relief in Eleusis donated by Lacrateides about
100 B. C. (Lawrence: Later Greek Sculpture pp. 46, 124
and pl. 79).
Billedtavler XI. N. C. G. 146. Martin P. Nilsson, Die Antike 18, 1942 p. 22.
144. (I. N. 1480). Relief with Demeter. Terracotta.
H. 0.38. Acquired in 1896 in Rome and stated to have come from
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