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)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

MUSES, ETC.

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1684. Draped female Torso, perhaps Melpomene. The H

figure stands with the right knee slightly bent,
and wears a long chiton, girt at the waist, and a

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long mantle, which passes about the body and

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over the left shoulder. On the feet are thick . .
sandals, such as were worn by the Tragic Muse.
The head, neck, shoulders, and arms of this figure
are wanting, and have been united to the body by ~~
joints. The moulded base on which the statue %
stands is said to have been discovered with it.
An upper member, now wanting, was attached by
a dowel, run with lead. It is inscribed ©evSupov
ApTefiwvos 6 8r)fios' 'ATroAAoSwpos Zt^'coj'os "^WKatcus W
i-otrjcrev. " The people erected this statue in honour O
of Theodoros, son of Artemon. Apollodoros, son of Z
Zenon, of Phocaea, made it." Plin}~ (N.H.xxxiv. 81) Cj
describes the character of a noted sculptor, Apollo- y
doros. The name, however, is exceedingly common -p
—it occurs more than seventy times in the Corpus j,
of Greek Inscriptions—and there is no reason for _
identifying this Apollodoros of Phoeaea with Pliny's W
artist. Hellenistic work of the 2nd cent. b.c., O
deeply wrought and finely composed.—Excavated
near the harbour of Erythrae.

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Parian marble. Height, 5 feet 6 inches ; with base, S feet
5 inches. Purchased, 1859, of the widow of Mr. Borrell,
of Smyrna. Le Bas, Alon. Fig., No. 142 ; Inscriptions, <^
Pt. V., No. 47, and Expl, p. 24; Raoul-Rochette, Lettrc s
a M. Schorn, p. 433 ; Overbeck, Schriftqnellen, No. 2050 ;
Brunn. Gr. Kiinstlcr, L, p. 503; Hirschfeld, Tituli o
Statuariomm, p. 106, No. 85; Grceco-Roman Guide, II., r
No. 63 ; Loewy, No. 218 ; Reinach, Repertoire de la
Statuaire, II., p. 678, fig. 5.

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