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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
127. Isis and Osiris (?). Female figure, enthroned, wearing
close-fitting dress, necklace, and large mantle passing
over the back of her head. She holds a nude figure of a
boy at her breast. Bed paint on the veil.—Temenos of
Aphrodite.
Limestone ; height, 4§ inches. Naukratis, II., pi. 14, fig. 7.
FRAGMENT FROM DELOS.
130. Fragment of a foot of a colossal statue of Apollo,
together with a part of the plinth in the same block.
The fragment consists of parts of the four greater toes
of the left foot. The plinth has dowel holes at each side.
Naxian marble (?). Length of great toe, 1 foot 2 inches ; height of plinth,
2 feet 1 inch. This fragment was found by W. Kennard at Delos,
in 1818. Stuart, 2nd edit., III., p. 127 ; IV., section on Delos,
pi. 4, fig. 2. It is no doubt a part of a colossal statue which was
dedicated by the Naxians to Apollo at Delos, and of which the
base and other parts still remain in situ. The base is inscribed
on one side, Na£ioi 'AiriWcoi^i, and on another side in archaic
letters, TaFvTov XiQov ei^u' avSplas Kal T~b crcpeAas : " I am of the
same stone both statue and base." It is supposed that this is
"the great statue of the Naxians" at Delos, which, it is said,
was overturned by the fall of a brazen palm-tree dedicated by
Nicias (Plutarch, Nicias, 3).
The first modern traveller who saw the statue was Bondelmonte
(a.d. 1416), who found it prostrate, and says that he made an
unsuccessful attempt to set it up {Liber Insularum Archipelagic
Sinner's edit., p. 92). In 1447 Cyriac of Ancona sketched the base
with one foot still in position (Bull, dell''Inst., 1861, p. 182). When
visited by Spon and Wheler in 1675, the head, hands and feet
were lost, but the torso appears to have been nearly complete
(Wheler, Journey, p. 56). In 1700 Tournefort only found the
lower part of the body, and the thighs (Eng. ed. of 1741, vol. I.,
pi. facing p. 303). The parts seen by Tournefort remain at
Delos, and have been described by several travellers. Welcker,
Alte Denkmaeler, I., p. 400; Michaelis, Annali dell' Inst., 1864,
p. 253 ; Furtwaengler, Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 329. For the base
and inscription, see Blouet, Exp. de More'e, III., pi. 3, figs. 3, 4
Bull, de Corr. Helle'nique, III., p. 2.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
127. Isis and Osiris (?). Female figure, enthroned, wearing
close-fitting dress, necklace, and large mantle passing
over the back of her head. She holds a nude figure of a
boy at her breast. Bed paint on the veil.—Temenos of
Aphrodite.
Limestone ; height, 4§ inches. Naukratis, II., pi. 14, fig. 7.
FRAGMENT FROM DELOS.
130. Fragment of a foot of a colossal statue of Apollo,
together with a part of the plinth in the same block.
The fragment consists of parts of the four greater toes
of the left foot. The plinth has dowel holes at each side.
Naxian marble (?). Length of great toe, 1 foot 2 inches ; height of plinth,
2 feet 1 inch. This fragment was found by W. Kennard at Delos,
in 1818. Stuart, 2nd edit., III., p. 127 ; IV., section on Delos,
pi. 4, fig. 2. It is no doubt a part of a colossal statue which was
dedicated by the Naxians to Apollo at Delos, and of which the
base and other parts still remain in situ. The base is inscribed
on one side, Na£ioi 'AiriWcoi^i, and on another side in archaic
letters, TaFvTov XiQov ei^u' avSplas Kal T~b crcpeAas : " I am of the
same stone both statue and base." It is supposed that this is
"the great statue of the Naxians" at Delos, which, it is said,
was overturned by the fall of a brazen palm-tree dedicated by
Nicias (Plutarch, Nicias, 3).
The first modern traveller who saw the statue was Bondelmonte
(a.d. 1416), who found it prostrate, and says that he made an
unsuccessful attempt to set it up {Liber Insularum Archipelagic
Sinner's edit., p. 92). In 1447 Cyriac of Ancona sketched the base
with one foot still in position (Bull, dell''Inst., 1861, p. 182). When
visited by Spon and Wheler in 1675, the head, hands and feet
were lost, but the torso appears to have been nearly complete
(Wheler, Journey, p. 56). In 1700 Tournefort only found the
lower part of the body, and the thighs (Eng. ed. of 1741, vol. I.,
pi. facing p. 303). The parts seen by Tournefort remain at
Delos, and have been described by several travellers. Welcker,
Alte Denkmaeler, I., p. 400; Michaelis, Annali dell' Inst., 1864,
p. 253 ; Furtwaengler, Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 329. For the base
and inscription, see Blouet, Exp. de More'e, III., pi. 3, figs. 3, 4
Bull, de Corr. Helle'nique, III., p. 2.