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Graeco-Roman art.

The work is good but somewhat dry, and though the eyelids
meet in sharp angles as in genuine work of the 5th century
B. C., (cf. Neugebauer: Studien iiber Skopas p. 42 note 197),
the possibility of a Greek original from that century must
be excluded. Like Nos. 25, 149 and 241, this head is evidently
neither a Greek original nor a Roman copy proper, but a
renewal of an ancient Attic berm intentionally made in the
classical style (see under No. 24). Curtins regards our head
as a genuine original of the fifth century B. C. and a head
at Villa Albani as a copy of it. But our head is too small and
poorly executed to rank as such and it would be more reason-
able to assume that a famous temple figure was the model
of both heads. The Albani head is considerably larger, a fact
which also makes the idea of a direct copy from the head
in the Glyptotek unreasonable. Finally, there is a replica of
our head in the Louvre, further proof that we are dealing
with copies.
Billedtavler pl. XXXIX. S. Reinach: Tetes antiques pls. 117-18. N. C. G. 13.
R. Lullies: Die Typen der antiken Herme p. 13. Matz in Arch. Jahrb. 46, 1931,
p. 15 figs. 9-10 and p. IS. L. Curtius: Zeus und Hermes p. 2 seqq., figs. 1 and
3. V. H. Poulsen, Collections II 1938 p. 101 note 7. Arndt-Amelung, text of
4508-10. Cambridge Ancient History, Volume of Plates II, 58 c. Gotze: Rom.
Mitt. 54, 1939 p. 226.

515.

(I. N. 1649). Zeus or another bearded deity. Head. M.
H. 0.18. Acquired 1898 from the Despuig collection, Mallorca. The tip
of the nose, ear locks and the back of the head modern. The face itself
is quite wry with dissymmetry.
The technique of the beard recalls the routinish, but soul-
less application of the running drill in the time of the late
Roman empire, which has destroyed the form. The head is
in Roman classicistic style and like Nos. 152 and 516 it
belongs to the herm type which L. Curtius has classified
under the letter B (Zeus und Hermes p. 54 seqq.).
Billedtavler pl. XXXIX. Arndt-Amelung 4781-85 (Fr. Poulsen).

516. (I. N. 564). Zeus or another bearded deity. Head. M.
H. 0.35. The technique of the nape of the neck shows that the head
originates from a herm. Nose and right ear modern in plaster, left
ear, shoulder-locks, parts of the beard knocked off. Acquired 1889 from
Rome.

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