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 3) (London, 1904)

CATALOGUE

OF

GREEK SCULPTURE

PART VII.

LATER GREEK AND GRAECO-ROMAN
STATUES AND BUSTS.

ZEUS.

1515. Head of Zeus, with short, curling beard and hair. The
hair is bound with a narrow taenia. The pupils of the
eyes are marked. The head is in two pieces, joined at
the taenia. It has been suggested (without evidence)
that this head may be copied from the Zeus Meilichios of
Polycleitos the elder. More recently it has been con-
nected (by Overbeds) with the Zeus Philios of Polycleitos
(the younger?). Graeco-Eoman period.—Towneley Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 2§ inches. Restored : nose, part of
left cheek, neck, and bust. The face has been worked over.
Purchased by Mr. Townley at the Duke of St. Albans' sale.
Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 1; Specimens, I., pi. 31; Ellis, Town,
Gall., I., p. 309; Grceco-Roman Guide, I., No. 122; Miiller-
Wieseler, Denkmaeler, II., pi. 1, fig. 3 ; ed. Wernicke, pi. 3,
fig. 8; W. Lloyd, Trans. R. Soc. Lit, 2nd ser., VII., p. 16,
pi. 2; Overbeck, GriecJi. Kunstmythologie, II., pp. 91, 229;
Atlas, pi. 2, fig. 17 ; Wolters, No. 1512.

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