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point of reaching the boundary of Olympos and passing
to the outer world.
Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 5; Michaelis, pi. 6, fig. 11 ; Murray, II., pi. 4 ;
Stereoscopic, No. 100 ; Kayet, Monuments, No. 32 ; Walostein,
Essays, pi. 7 ; Mitchell, Selections, pL 6 ; Brunn, Ber. dcr k. layer.
Akad., l'ltil. hist. CI, 18-74, II., p. 15.
303 G. Iris (?).—This figure is moving rapidly to our left, the
right knee bent. The left arm was probably extended ;
the right was bent nearly at a right angle. Both hands
probably held parts of the mantle, of which a remnant
iloats behind, bellied out by the resistance of the air to
the rapid movement of the figure. The feet are wanting
from the instep. The figure was let into a socket about
two inches deep, on the floor of the pediment. It seems to
be exactly in the same condition as when Carrey saw it,
except that in his drawing rather more of the neck appears
than now remains. The dress is a Doric chiton, sclustos, open
down the left side, except for the girdle. Over this falls
a diploidion. The arms of this figure are small in propor-
tion to the strength of the lower limbs, and the breasts
undeveloped like those of a young girl. This would
be consistent with the type of Iris as the messenger of
Zeus and Hera, trained to swift movement. The head
may have been half turned back towards the central
group, but too little remains of the neck to make this
certain. From the rapid movement of the figure in a
direction turned away from the centre of the composition,
archaeologists have been nearly unanimous in thinking
that the figure is Iris on her way to announce the event of
the birth to the world outside Olympos. But the action is
not that of a steady flight through the air, for which the
Nike of Baionios (No. 192) should be compared. It is
rather that of a person starting aside in alarm. Moreover,
the figure has not the wings of Iris, and on these grounds
she has been called Eileithyia (Murray, ii., p. 71), Hebe
CATALOGUE OF SOULPTUEE.
point of reaching the boundary of Olympos and passing
to the outer world.
Mus. Marbles, VI., pi. 5; Michaelis, pi. 6, fig. 11 ; Murray, II., pi. 4 ;
Stereoscopic, No. 100 ; Kayet, Monuments, No. 32 ; Walostein,
Essays, pi. 7 ; Mitchell, Selections, pL 6 ; Brunn, Ber. dcr k. layer.
Akad., l'ltil. hist. CI, 18-74, II., p. 15.
303 G. Iris (?).—This figure is moving rapidly to our left, the
right knee bent. The left arm was probably extended ;
the right was bent nearly at a right angle. Both hands
probably held parts of the mantle, of which a remnant
iloats behind, bellied out by the resistance of the air to
the rapid movement of the figure. The feet are wanting
from the instep. The figure was let into a socket about
two inches deep, on the floor of the pediment. It seems to
be exactly in the same condition as when Carrey saw it,
except that in his drawing rather more of the neck appears
than now remains. The dress is a Doric chiton, sclustos, open
down the left side, except for the girdle. Over this falls
a diploidion. The arms of this figure are small in propor-
tion to the strength of the lower limbs, and the breasts
undeveloped like those of a young girl. This would
be consistent with the type of Iris as the messenger of
Zeus and Hera, trained to swift movement. The head
may have been half turned back towards the central
group, but too little remains of the neck to make this
certain. From the rapid movement of the figure in a
direction turned away from the centre of the composition,
archaeologists have been nearly unanimous in thinking
that the figure is Iris on her way to announce the event of
the birth to the world outside Olympos. But the action is
not that of a steady flight through the air, for which the
Nike of Baionios (No. 192) should be compared. It is
rather that of a person starting aside in alarm. Moreover,
the figure has not the wings of Iris, and on these grounds
she has been called Eileithyia (Murray, ii., p. 71), Hebe