Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

SCULPTURES FROM CYRENE. 225

been worked to fit into a socket. The helmet, which is of
the kind called Corinthian, has the front broken below
the nasal. In other respects this head is uninjured.—
Temple of Apollo, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 1 foot 2 inches. Smith and Porcher,pi. 64, pp.42,
92, 99, No. 4; Grasco-Roman Guide, h, No. 103; Mansell, No.
1090.

1383. Head of Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus. The
head is that of a beardless young man, and if it is a por-
trait the features appear to have been somewhat idealized,
after the type introduced by Scopas, and common in the
Hellenistic period. The hair falls in short curls, conven-
tionally disposed, round the forehead. A narrow diadem
is tied round the head, such as is worn by the Ptolemies
and Greek kings of the period of the Diadochi. If the
portrait was originally intended for Cn. Marcellinus, the
sculptor may have been following a fashion, which had
been familiar while Cyrene was still a kingdom.

The back of the head is cut flat, as if to enable it to be
placed against a pilaster. The base of the neck is worked
as if it was intended for a statue. It was, however, at
the time of discovery fitted into a deep socket, on the top
of a square marble pedestal, 10 inches broad and 5 feet
nigh, which fitted into a square socket in the inscribed
base below, and thus established the connexion between
the head and the base. This pedestal was unfortunately
left at Cyrene, on account of the insufficient means
of transport at the command of the expedition. The
base is inscribed—

rlvaZov K-opvqh-iov hivTo\ov
HottX-loi v'lov MapKeXXlyoy irpifr-
fitvrav avTUTTparayov, t6v
irarpuyva koI o-uiTrjpa, Kvpavruoi,
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