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)

EROS ; HERMAPHKODITOS.

G9

Head of a young boy with wiry hair curling in front, and
twisted in a plait over the top of the head.

Parian marble. Height, 9 inches. Bought of Castellani, 1879.
Mansell, No. 1278.

1681. Head of Eros (?). Head of a young boy, slightly
smiling. The hair is gathered in a knot above the fore-
head, in a cluster over each ear, and in a small roll at the
back of the head.—Blwdes.

Parian marble. Height, 4§ inches. Bought of A. Biliotti, 1874.

HERMAPHRODITOS.

1682. Hermaphrodites. Torso from the neck to the middle
of the thighs. The head was a separate piece, attached
at the beginning of the neck. The figure stands mainly
on the left leg. The drapery consisted of a cloak, fastened
on the right shoulder, and falling down the back. A fold
of it was probably gathered in the right hand, near the
right thigh.—Cos.

Parian marble. Height, 1 foot inches. Obtained by C. T.
Newton, 1854.

1683. Androgynous terminal figure. The figure, which is
nude, is above the hips that of a young girl. She presses
a bird (restored as an ibis) to her left side, and feeds it
with a bunch of grapes held in the right hand. Her hair
is drawn back and tied with a knot; the back tresses fall
in a curly mass on the neck.—Towneley Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 3 feet 10 inches. Restored: head, neck,
and leg of bird, base of term. The girl's face is considerably-
mended. Found in a swamp near Lake Nemi in 1774. Mus.
Marbles, X., pi. 30; Ellis, Town. Gall, I., p. 233 (= Vaux,
Handljook, p. 216) ; Grceco-Eoman Guide, I., No. 167; Miiller-
Wieseler, Denkmaeler, II., No. 708.