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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUEE.
case of Homer as one of those in which a longing fancy
supplies the portrait that has not been handed down.—
Towneley Coll.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 10j| inches. Restored : tip of nose. Anew
piece is inserted in the hair to prevent a threatened split. Found
in 1780, in ruins on the site of Baiae. Mns. Marbles, II., pi. 25 ;
Mansell, No. 832; Dallaway, p. 318; Ellis, Toicn. Gal!., I.,
p. 343; Grceco-Soman Guide, I., No. 117; Wolters, No. 1627;
Bernoulli, Jahrbuch des Arch. Inst., 1896, p. 161, No. 13; Griech.
Ikonographie, L, p. 10, No. 12, pi. 2; Magnus, Die Antiken
Busten des Homer, p. 12, No. VIII., p. 31, etc. The replicas of
the head of Homer are enumerated and discussed by Magnus,
I. c, p. 11 ; Bernoulli, Jahrbuch, 1896, p. 161, and Griech.
Ikonographie, I., p. 8. See ibid., p. 16, for the date of this type.
Robert (in Hermes, XXXV., p. 654) assigns the origin of the
type to the 1st century A.D., needlessly inferring from Pliny's
context that the type had been recently devised.
1826. Homer (?). Bearded head, with long tresses of hair,
and lips slightly parted. The strongly contracted eye-
brows and deep sunk eyeballs suggest that the head is
intended to represent Homer. The nose is lost, and the
surface is in bad condition.
Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 2 inches. Graco-Roman Guide, II..
No. 156.
1827. (Plate XL) Periander (?), tyrant of Corinth, and
one of the seven wise men of Greece. Head, restored as
a term, with close, curling beard, and curling hair brought
somewhat low on the forehead. The type, current in
antiquity for Periander, is established by an inscribed
term found at Tivoli about 1775, and now in the Vatican.
On account of a supposed resemblance to that term, the
present head was called Periander by T. Combe, but the
face appears to be shorter and broader, with thicker hair
and beard.— Towneley Coll.
Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 7 inches. Restored : nose, edges of
ears, terminal bust. Formerly in the Villa Montalto at Rome.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUEE.
case of Homer as one of those in which a longing fancy
supplies the portrait that has not been handed down.—
Towneley Coll.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 10j| inches. Restored : tip of nose. Anew
piece is inserted in the hair to prevent a threatened split. Found
in 1780, in ruins on the site of Baiae. Mns. Marbles, II., pi. 25 ;
Mansell, No. 832; Dallaway, p. 318; Ellis, Toicn. Gal!., I.,
p. 343; Grceco-Soman Guide, I., No. 117; Wolters, No. 1627;
Bernoulli, Jahrbuch des Arch. Inst., 1896, p. 161, No. 13; Griech.
Ikonographie, L, p. 10, No. 12, pi. 2; Magnus, Die Antiken
Busten des Homer, p. 12, No. VIII., p. 31, etc. The replicas of
the head of Homer are enumerated and discussed by Magnus,
I. c, p. 11 ; Bernoulli, Jahrbuch, 1896, p. 161, and Griech.
Ikonographie, I., p. 8. See ibid., p. 16, for the date of this type.
Robert (in Hermes, XXXV., p. 654) assigns the origin of the
type to the 1st century A.D., needlessly inferring from Pliny's
context that the type had been recently devised.
1826. Homer (?). Bearded head, with long tresses of hair,
and lips slightly parted. The strongly contracted eye-
brows and deep sunk eyeballs suggest that the head is
intended to represent Homer. The nose is lost, and the
surface is in bad condition.
Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 2 inches. Graco-Roman Guide, II..
No. 156.
1827. (Plate XL) Periander (?), tyrant of Corinth, and
one of the seven wise men of Greece. Head, restored as
a term, with close, curling beard, and curling hair brought
somewhat low on the forehead. The type, current in
antiquity for Periander, is established by an inscribed
term found at Tivoli about 1775, and now in the Vatican.
On account of a supposed resemblance to that term, the
present head was called Periander by T. Combe, but the
face appears to be shorter and broader, with thicker hair
and beard.— Towneley Coll.
Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 7 inches. Restored : nose, edges of
ears, terminal bust. Formerly in the Villa Montalto at Rome.