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)

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CATALOGUE OP SCULPTURE.

1480. Portrait statue of a young girl standing. She wears A
long chiton, a mantle, and shoes. A short veil, reaching
to the base of the neck, and distinct from the mantle, is
drawn over the back of the head. The forearms were
separately attached and are now wanting. The hair falls
in waves on each side of the head, and is confined by a
double circlet. It is gathered in a coil at the back of
the head under the veil. On the left knee are still
traces of red colour. The sculpture is very careless, and
probably not earlier than the third century a.d. On
the top of the head is an oblong rectangular sinking,
as if for the insertion of a dowel.—Found near the central
Theatre, Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 4 feet 1 inch. Discovered by sailora from H.M.S.
Melpomene, during the expedition of Captain Smith and Captain
Porcher. Smith and Porcher, p. 106, No. 122 ; p. 83; Graico-
Roman Guide, II., No. 90.

1481. Torso of a draped male figure, from the neck to the
middle of the thighs, wearing a girt tunic, and a chlamys
fastened with a brooch above the right breast. A part of
the drapery on the right side was separately attached.
The drapery is finely and delicately worked.—Gyrene.

Marble. Height, 1 foot. Smith and Porcher, p. 106, No. 123.

1482. Torso of nude male figure standing to the front. The
right leg is broken off high up, the left leg at the knee.
Both arms and the head are wanting. There is a deep
hole in the left shoulder and a depression above it. From
the way in which both arms were extended towards the
figure's left, it has been called Apollo bending his bow,
but the erect torso does not suit this interpretation.—
Cyrene.

Marble, partly burnt. Height, 1 foot 1 inch. Smith and Porcher,
p. 106, No. 124.