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Graeco-Roman art.
perhaps have been taken from an earlier Greek model.
Compare A. B. 1135-36.
Billedtavler pl. XXXV.
470 a. (I. N. 2618). Poseidon. Colossal head. M.
II 0.49. The nose is modern. Parts of the beard and hair, the lips
etc. broken off. The surface much weathered and partly worn,
especially the beard; on the forehead and left cheek faint traces of
original epidermis. The head, shaped for insertion into a drapery
statue (remnants of the cloak at the back of the neck) has been split
at the thickest place, somewhat below the lip, but is correctly
restored.
This head, which was acquired in 1913 and is said to have
come from Crete and for some years to have been in a private
house on the island of Syra, is like Michelangelo’s Moses at
first glance, but the character, like the technique, is quite
different. Its place is the antique baroque style, but it does
not resemble the works of Pergamene art with their elaborate
treatment of details (cf. for example Nereus on the Pergamene
frieze, Altertiimer von Pergamon III 2 pl. XXII, and the satyr
head on a silver relief in Berlin, Winnefeld in 68. Berliner
Winckelmannsprogramm pl. I). In the drilling technique and
the rendering of the hair, however, there is a distinct
resemblance to a head of Alexander the Great, acquired from
Alexandria for the British Museum in 1872 (Catal. of Marbles
III p. 142 No. 1857, pl. X and XII. Hinks: Greek and Roman
Portrait-Sculpture pl. 9). Still closer is the relationship
through the treatment of the beard with a Hellenistic bronze
bust from Alexandria (P. Perdrizet: Bronzes de la Collection
Fouquet p. 17 No. 19 and pl. IX 3). As for the general im-
’ pression, however, the likeness is closest to a bust of Serapis
in Cairo; true, this bust is already Roman, but it bears
witness to a common tradition (Edgar, Musee du Caire,
Greek Sculpture pl. 32, 27603; text p. 69. Fr. v. Bissing:
Aegyptische Kultbilder der Ptolemaer- und Romerzeit (Der
alte Orient 34, 1-2) p. 10 and pl. 1,3 a). Accordingly we are
safe in describing the Glyptotek’s powerful head as a piece
of Alexandrian plastics, imported by the neighbour island of
Crete.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen, Collections II 1933 p. 40 seep
and figs. 38-40. Text of Arndt-Amelung 4611 (Brendel) and reproduction 1. c.
4756.
336
perhaps have been taken from an earlier Greek model.
Compare A. B. 1135-36.
Billedtavler pl. XXXV.
470 a. (I. N. 2618). Poseidon. Colossal head. M.
II 0.49. The nose is modern. Parts of the beard and hair, the lips
etc. broken off. The surface much weathered and partly worn,
especially the beard; on the forehead and left cheek faint traces of
original epidermis. The head, shaped for insertion into a drapery
statue (remnants of the cloak at the back of the neck) has been split
at the thickest place, somewhat below the lip, but is correctly
restored.
This head, which was acquired in 1913 and is said to have
come from Crete and for some years to have been in a private
house on the island of Syra, is like Michelangelo’s Moses at
first glance, but the character, like the technique, is quite
different. Its place is the antique baroque style, but it does
not resemble the works of Pergamene art with their elaborate
treatment of details (cf. for example Nereus on the Pergamene
frieze, Altertiimer von Pergamon III 2 pl. XXII, and the satyr
head on a silver relief in Berlin, Winnefeld in 68. Berliner
Winckelmannsprogramm pl. I). In the drilling technique and
the rendering of the hair, however, there is a distinct
resemblance to a head of Alexander the Great, acquired from
Alexandria for the British Museum in 1872 (Catal. of Marbles
III p. 142 No. 1857, pl. X and XII. Hinks: Greek and Roman
Portrait-Sculpture pl. 9). Still closer is the relationship
through the treatment of the beard with a Hellenistic bronze
bust from Alexandria (P. Perdrizet: Bronzes de la Collection
Fouquet p. 17 No. 19 and pl. IX 3). As for the general im-
’ pression, however, the likeness is closest to a bust of Serapis
in Cairo; true, this bust is already Roman, but it bears
witness to a common tradition (Edgar, Musee du Caire,
Greek Sculpture pl. 32, 27603; text p. 69. Fr. v. Bissing:
Aegyptische Kultbilder der Ptolemaer- und Romerzeit (Der
alte Orient 34, 1-2) p. 10 and pl. 1,3 a). Accordingly we are
safe in describing the Glyptotek’s powerful head as a piece
of Alexandrian plastics, imported by the neighbour island of
Crete.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen, Collections II 1933 p. 40 seep
and figs. 38-40. Text of Arndt-Amelung 4611 (Brendel) and reproduction 1. c.
4756.
336