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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
torch (?), which, supports his left armpit, and rests his
head on his left shoulder, on which he also lays his right
hand. The feet and left hand are wanting- Behind him
is a stump.
The subject is common on sepulchral reliefs, but less
so as a work of independent sculpture, which this appears
to be.—Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 1 foot 4§ inches. Cf. Reinach, Repertoire de la
Statuaire, II., p. 489.
1679. (Plate VI.) Head of a boy, perhaps Eros, with short
hair, roughly sketched, out, and a smiling expression.
The teeth are seen between the slightly parted lips. This
head is worked in the round, but with less detail on the
right side. Moreover, the drawing of the face, when seen
from the front, is fault}*. It is therefore probable that
the head belonged to a group, perhaps of Aphrodite and
Eros, in which the left side was chiefly presented to the
spectator.
The date of the work has been disputed, but it seems
to be a somewhat hasty work of a comparatively early
period, perhaps the fourth century.—From Faphos. Pre-
sented by the Cyprus Exploration Fund.
Marble of Asia Minor (?). Height, 7 inches. Excavated, in 188S, in
a hole under the Roman mosaic, in the middle of the south stoa of
the Temple at Paphos. Joum. of Hellen. Studies, IX. (1888), pi. 10 ;
Gaz.des Beaux-Arts, 1890, II., pp. 430, 431. Mansell, No. 1657,
The head has been attributed to the fourth century B.C. (Hogarth,
Class. Rev., II., p. 186 ; E. A. Gardner, Journ. of Hellen. Studies,
IX. (1888), p. 219; XI. (1890), p. 100; cf. Reinach, Gaz. dcs
Beaux-Arts, 1890, II., p. 435) ; to the second century by Reinach,
(Rev. Arch., 3rd Ser., XIV., p. 120); and to the Graeco-Roman
period by C. Smith (Class. Rev., II., p. 329). The nearest
parallel that has been adduced is a fourth-century relief at
Argos (Joum. of Hellen. Studies, XL, p. 101). Compare also
the boy's head, No. 1934.
1680. (Plate VI.) Head of Eros (?), broken from a statue.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
torch (?), which, supports his left armpit, and rests his
head on his left shoulder, on which he also lays his right
hand. The feet and left hand are wanting- Behind him
is a stump.
The subject is common on sepulchral reliefs, but less
so as a work of independent sculpture, which this appears
to be.—Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 1 foot 4§ inches. Cf. Reinach, Repertoire de la
Statuaire, II., p. 489.
1679. (Plate VI.) Head of a boy, perhaps Eros, with short
hair, roughly sketched, out, and a smiling expression.
The teeth are seen between the slightly parted lips. This
head is worked in the round, but with less detail on the
right side. Moreover, the drawing of the face, when seen
from the front, is fault}*. It is therefore probable that
the head belonged to a group, perhaps of Aphrodite and
Eros, in which the left side was chiefly presented to the
spectator.
The date of the work has been disputed, but it seems
to be a somewhat hasty work of a comparatively early
period, perhaps the fourth century.—From Faphos. Pre-
sented by the Cyprus Exploration Fund.
Marble of Asia Minor (?). Height, 7 inches. Excavated, in 188S, in
a hole under the Roman mosaic, in the middle of the south stoa of
the Temple at Paphos. Joum. of Hellen. Studies, IX. (1888), pi. 10 ;
Gaz.des Beaux-Arts, 1890, II., pp. 430, 431. Mansell, No. 1657,
The head has been attributed to the fourth century B.C. (Hogarth,
Class. Rev., II., p. 186 ; E. A. Gardner, Journ. of Hellen. Studies,
IX. (1888), p. 219; XI. (1890), p. 100; cf. Reinach, Gaz. dcs
Beaux-Arts, 1890, II., p. 435) ; to the second century by Reinach,
(Rev. Arch., 3rd Ser., XIV., p. 120); and to the Graeco-Roman
period by C. Smith (Class. Rev., II., p. 329). The nearest
parallel that has been adduced is a fourth-century relief at
Argos (Joum. of Hellen. Studies, XL, p. 101). Compare also
the boy's head, No. 1934.
1680. (Plate VI.) Head of Eros (?), broken from a statue.