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Greek Portraiture.
Silanion, had created the original, and stylistic studies have
disclosed the close relationship of the head with works by
Silanion, the maker of the portrait of Plato (see 415b).
Hypereides, who died in 322 B. C. about seventy years old,
was an eloquent and witty orator and an elegant man about
town, of whose escapades many stories were in circulation.
Our portrait depicts him as a well-groomed, elderly gentle-
man with keen eyes and a sarcastic mouth. Statues of him
were put up from 307 B. C.
Billedtavler pl. XXX. Lippold: Griech. Portratstatuen p. 56 notfe 2. Fr. Poul-
sen, Mon. Piot XXI 1913 p. 3 seqq. and pl. III. Fr. Poulsen: Ikon. Misc. p. 4
seqq. Gf. Studniczka, Arch. Jahrb. 38-39, 1923-24 p. 88 and Pfuhl: Anfange
der griech. Bildniskunst p. 29 note 59. Ed. Schmidt, Arch. Jahrb. 47, 1932 p.
296 seqq. Greifenhagen, Arch. Anz. 48, 1933, p. 435. Crome, Arch. Anz. 50, 1935,
p. 1 seqq. adds to the series a replica in the Museo Archeologico, Florence,
and names and dates the head differently. In this he is opposed by Ed.
Schmidt, Arch. Anz. 50, 1935 p. 377 seqq. A. Hekler: Bildnisse beruhmter
Griechen p. 23. L. Laurenzi: Ritratti greci p. 112 No. 58 (agrees with Crome’s
dating and appellation as Aristippus). Schefold approves of the identification
as Hypereides (pp. 108 and 208 seq.). Gullini, Archeologia Classica I, 1949,
p. 133.
423. (I. N. 605). Colossal head of a Greek. M.
H. 0.51. For insertion into a statue. Nose, lips, ears and parts of
the brows modern in plaster. The surface worked over; the hair
alone has good antique sinter. The lower part of the neck modern.
Acquired in 1890 from Martinetti, Rome.
The engraved pupils and the considerable use of drilling
in the hair and beard show that the work is Late Roman,
of the 2nd-3rd cent. A. D. In a poor state of preservation and
much altered in style as this head is (see especially the
arrangement of the brow curls, which are distinctly Roman),
it has been difficult to identify and date. It is so little indi-
vidual that it might be a god, Zeus or Asclepius; but the
original would rather seem to be a heroic portrait in the
spirit of the 5th cent. This is shown by a comparison with
a head in London, A. B. 961-62 and through it with two
portraits of the period round about 450-440, such as a head
at Detroit, A. B. 1101-2 and one in Berlin, Bliimel: Katalog
Berlin IV p. 53 K. 116 and pl. 80.
Billedtavler pl. XXX. Essays at dating by Lippold in A. B. 969-70 and Fr.
Poulsen, Collections I 1931, p. 69 and fig. 52.
298
Silanion, had created the original, and stylistic studies have
disclosed the close relationship of the head with works by
Silanion, the maker of the portrait of Plato (see 415b).
Hypereides, who died in 322 B. C. about seventy years old,
was an eloquent and witty orator and an elegant man about
town, of whose escapades many stories were in circulation.
Our portrait depicts him as a well-groomed, elderly gentle-
man with keen eyes and a sarcastic mouth. Statues of him
were put up from 307 B. C.
Billedtavler pl. XXX. Lippold: Griech. Portratstatuen p. 56 notfe 2. Fr. Poul-
sen, Mon. Piot XXI 1913 p. 3 seqq. and pl. III. Fr. Poulsen: Ikon. Misc. p. 4
seqq. Gf. Studniczka, Arch. Jahrb. 38-39, 1923-24 p. 88 and Pfuhl: Anfange
der griech. Bildniskunst p. 29 note 59. Ed. Schmidt, Arch. Jahrb. 47, 1932 p.
296 seqq. Greifenhagen, Arch. Anz. 48, 1933, p. 435. Crome, Arch. Anz. 50, 1935,
p. 1 seqq. adds to the series a replica in the Museo Archeologico, Florence,
and names and dates the head differently. In this he is opposed by Ed.
Schmidt, Arch. Anz. 50, 1935 p. 377 seqq. A. Hekler: Bildnisse beruhmter
Griechen p. 23. L. Laurenzi: Ritratti greci p. 112 No. 58 (agrees with Crome’s
dating and appellation as Aristippus). Schefold approves of the identification
as Hypereides (pp. 108 and 208 seq.). Gullini, Archeologia Classica I, 1949,
p. 133.
423. (I. N. 605). Colossal head of a Greek. M.
H. 0.51. For insertion into a statue. Nose, lips, ears and parts of
the brows modern in plaster. The surface worked over; the hair
alone has good antique sinter. The lower part of the neck modern.
Acquired in 1890 from Martinetti, Rome.
The engraved pupils and the considerable use of drilling
in the hair and beard show that the work is Late Roman,
of the 2nd-3rd cent. A. D. In a poor state of preservation and
much altered in style as this head is (see especially the
arrangement of the brow curls, which are distinctly Roman),
it has been difficult to identify and date. It is so little indi-
vidual that it might be a god, Zeus or Asclepius; but the
original would rather seem to be a heroic portrait in the
spirit of the 5th cent. This is shown by a comparison with
a head in London, A. B. 961-62 and through it with two
portraits of the period round about 450-440, such as a head
at Detroit, A. B. 1101-2 and one in Berlin, Bliimel: Katalog
Berlin IV p. 53 K. 116 and pl. 80.
Billedtavler pl. XXX. Essays at dating by Lippold in A. B. 969-70 and Fr.
Poulsen, Collections I 1931, p. 69 and fig. 52.
298