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Graeco-Roman art.
this head has been conjectured as representing the artisan
god Hephaestus, but it is more reasonable and more in accord-
ance with 5th century traditions to regard it as a head of
Hermes.
L. Curtius regards it as a piece of original Greek work,
and three closely related Hermes heads as Roman copies of
enlarged dimensions. Like No. 514, our head lacks the
freshness of the Greek original, and it would be more natural
to assume prototypes of the middle of the 5th century for it
and the three more typical Roman heads. On the renewal of
herms see under No. 24. Neither is the style homogeneous;
the hair is like that of about the year 470, the shape of the
eye is contemporary with the Parthenon sculptures, i.e. about
440 R. C.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. N. C. G. 15. S. Reinach: Tetes antiques pl. 122.
Matz, Arch. Jahrb. 46, 1931, p. 16, figs. 11-12 and p. 18. L. Curtius: Zeus und
Hermes p. 6 seqq., figs. 6 and 8. Dimitrov in Arch. Anz. 52, 1937, p. 329 and
figs. 15-16. Gotze in Rom. Mitt. 53, 1938, p. 226.
242. (I. N. 1502). Divinity. Head. M.
H. 0.36. The nose and a little of the cheek new in plaster. The
lower lip modern in marble. The surface worn. Shaped for adding
to a statue; a deep hole in the back of the neck. Acquired in 1896
from the Turkish Embassy in Rome and reputed to have been found in
Athens.
Its closest relation is a fragmentary head in the Museo Bar-
dini, Florence (Arndt-Amelung 3212-13), and it seems to be a
Roman variant of a type that must have been created in the
beginning of the 4th cent. B. C., though the poor condition is
inimical to more exact stylistic analysis. Possibly the head
represents Asclepius.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. Arndt-Amelung 4154 (Brendel).
243. (I. N. 1742). Goddess. Colossal head. M.
H. 0.66. The nose-tip, the lips, part of the top of the head on the
left with the adjacent part of the diadem new in marble. The neck is
assembled of broken pieces. The face polished to some degree, and the
old surface is preserved only in the hair and parts of the diadem. The
drilling in the hair reveals it as Roman Empire work. Formerly the
head stood on a tall cipolin column in the courtyard of the Palazzo
Sciarra in Rome and was acquired in 1900 via Livorno.
Like the famous head of Juno Ludovisi, this is genuine
Roman work, the general pose alone reflecting prototypes of
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this head has been conjectured as representing the artisan
god Hephaestus, but it is more reasonable and more in accord-
ance with 5th century traditions to regard it as a head of
Hermes.
L. Curtius regards it as a piece of original Greek work,
and three closely related Hermes heads as Roman copies of
enlarged dimensions. Like No. 514, our head lacks the
freshness of the Greek original, and it would be more natural
to assume prototypes of the middle of the 5th century for it
and the three more typical Roman heads. On the renewal of
herms see under No. 24. Neither is the style homogeneous;
the hair is like that of about the year 470, the shape of the
eye is contemporary with the Parthenon sculptures, i.e. about
440 R. C.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. N. C. G. 15. S. Reinach: Tetes antiques pl. 122.
Matz, Arch. Jahrb. 46, 1931, p. 16, figs. 11-12 and p. 18. L. Curtius: Zeus und
Hermes p. 6 seqq., figs. 6 and 8. Dimitrov in Arch. Anz. 52, 1937, p. 329 and
figs. 15-16. Gotze in Rom. Mitt. 53, 1938, p. 226.
242. (I. N. 1502). Divinity. Head. M.
H. 0.36. The nose and a little of the cheek new in plaster. The
lower lip modern in marble. The surface worn. Shaped for adding
to a statue; a deep hole in the back of the neck. Acquired in 1896
from the Turkish Embassy in Rome and reputed to have been found in
Athens.
Its closest relation is a fragmentary head in the Museo Bar-
dini, Florence (Arndt-Amelung 3212-13), and it seems to be a
Roman variant of a type that must have been created in the
beginning of the 4th cent. B. C., though the poor condition is
inimical to more exact stylistic analysis. Possibly the head
represents Asclepius.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. Arndt-Amelung 4154 (Brendel).
243. (I. N. 1742). Goddess. Colossal head. M.
H. 0.66. The nose-tip, the lips, part of the top of the head on the
left with the adjacent part of the diadem new in marble. The neck is
assembled of broken pieces. The face polished to some degree, and the
old surface is preserved only in the hair and parts of the diadem. The
drilling in the hair reveals it as Roman Empire work. Formerly the
head stood on a tall cipolin column in the courtyard of the Palazzo
Sciarra in Rome and was acquired in 1900 via Livorno.
Like the famous head of Juno Ludovisi, this is genuine
Roman work, the general pose alone reflecting prototypes of
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