Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

556. Head of Odysseus ? Male head, with, curling hair and
short beard, wearing a peaked cap (pileus). Tho surface
is much decayed, and most of the chin and mouth is
broken away. This head may be from a sepulchral
monument.—Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot J inch. Mas. Marbles, IX., pi. 40,
fig. 3; Ellis, Elgin Marbles, II., p. 119.

557. Fragment from the back of a head. The hair is drawn
to a knot at the back of the head, and is confined by two
bands, crossing one another.

Pentelic marble; height, 10J inches.

558. Head of a maiden, wearing a closely-fitting cap. The
style is characteristic of the fifth century.—Athens ?
Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble ; height, 9 inches. Synopsis, No. 239 (122).

559. Heroic head of a youth, inclined slightly to his left.
The hair is very slightly indicated, and the back of the
head is worked away, as if for a bronze helmet.—Obtained
in Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in 1803, and pre-
sented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen in 1861.

Coarse-grained marble; height, 11 inches. The head was found
wearing a bronze helmet, which, however, did not fit, and has
been removed.

560. Cast of marble owl. L. Eoss (Annali delV Inst., 1841,
pi. C, p. 25), supposes that this owl was a votive offer-
ing which once surmounted a column found near it, on
which is inscribed the name of Timotheos of the deme
Anaphlystos. The lower part of the body, which is broken
away, has lately been found. The feathers of the wings
are set in formal rows, and tho treatment throughout
is characterised by an archaic severity, as has been
remarked by Ross. The feathers have probably been