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 2) (London, 1900)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

are clumsy. The back is hardly worked.-—From ruins on
north side of Temple of Apollo, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 6 feet 6 J inches. Smith and Porcher, pi. 68, p; 95
p. 100, No. 32; Grxco-Eoman Guide, II., No. 72; Reinach
Repertoire de la Statuaire, II., p. 243, fig. 9.

1404. Male portrait figure. A beardless old man with
strongly marked features stands to the front. He wears
a taenia over curling hair, and has a tunic and mantle.
The hands were separate pieces attached, and are now
wanting. The figure is wanting from below the knees,
where there is a straight joint, and the hole for a rough
outside cramp, that held the two pieces together.—From
ruins north of Temple of Apollo, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 5 feet 2 inches. Smith and Porcher, p. 100,
No. 34.

1405. Seated female portrait statue. The figure is seated on
a chair, with cushion and footstool. She wears a long-
sleeved tunic, and a mantle worn as a veil, and passing-
round over the knees, with a long fringe at one side.
She has a broad girdle, with a buckle in front, in the
shape of a knot of Hercules or reef knot, from which
hang six pendants. The belt is bright red. The top of
the head, the forearms, the feet and the front of the foot-
stool were separately attached. The face is of a portrait
character, with hair falling in tresses on the shoulders.
It was described by Messrs. Smith and Porcher as very
nearly resembling a statue found close by, known by the
insertion to have represented a priestess Archippe, and
the present statue may well have been that of another
priestess.—From ruins north of Temple of Apollo, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 4 feet 2 inches Smith and Porcher, pp 75, 101,
No. 35.