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GREEK PORTRAIT HEADS.
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The eyebrows are indicated. The lips are drawn back, so
as to show an open mouth. The expression of the lips
has been thought to indicate the infirmity of stammering,
to which Demosthenes was originally subject. The pur-
trait, however, is doubtful, and in those examples which
are most characteristic and certain (as in 1840), the lips
are tightly compressed.—Borne.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot inches. Restored : nose and part
of the moustache. Bought from J. Millingen, 1818. Mus.
Marbles, XI., pi. 20; Ellis, Town. Gall, II., p. 12 (= Vaux,
Handbook, p. 202); Grceco-Roman Guide, I., No. 56 ; Mausell,
Nos. 1053, 1189 ; Wolters, No. 1314; Michaelis, in A. Schaefer,
Demosthenes und seine Zeit (2nd ed.), III., p. 406, h'; Bernoulli,
Griech. Ikonographie, II., p. 73, No. 35; p. 78.
1842. Theophrastus (?). Small terminal portrait head, of a
man of middle age, with slightly aquiline nose, sparse
curly hair and beard, and moustaches. Inscribed
©eo^pacrros in characters copied from those on the term
with the name of Theophrastus in the Villa Albani.
The inscription is certainly modern, and so perhaps is
the head.— Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 4 inches. For the term in the Villa Albani, cf.
Bernoulli, Griech. Ikonographie, I., p. 99, pi. 13. For other
examples, see ibid.
1843. (Plate XL) Epicurus. Bearded head, with long-drawn
face and heavy brow, with locks of hair. The neck has
been anciently fitted into a socket.
The type of features of Epicurus is well ascertained.
It is established by an inscribed bronze bust, found in a
villa at Herculaneum, and by an inscribed double term
(of Epicurus and Metrodorus) in the Capitoline Museum.
Having regard to the fact mentioned both by Cicero
(de Fin., v., 1) and by Pliny (H.N., xxxv., 5), that the
sect of Epicurus placed everywhere the portrait of their
137
The eyebrows are indicated. The lips are drawn back, so
as to show an open mouth. The expression of the lips
has been thought to indicate the infirmity of stammering,
to which Demosthenes was originally subject. The pur-
trait, however, is doubtful, and in those examples which
are most characteristic and certain (as in 1840), the lips
are tightly compressed.—Borne.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot inches. Restored : nose and part
of the moustache. Bought from J. Millingen, 1818. Mus.
Marbles, XI., pi. 20; Ellis, Town. Gall, II., p. 12 (= Vaux,
Handbook, p. 202); Grceco-Roman Guide, I., No. 56 ; Mausell,
Nos. 1053, 1189 ; Wolters, No. 1314; Michaelis, in A. Schaefer,
Demosthenes und seine Zeit (2nd ed.), III., p. 406, h'; Bernoulli,
Griech. Ikonographie, II., p. 73, No. 35; p. 78.
1842. Theophrastus (?). Small terminal portrait head, of a
man of middle age, with slightly aquiline nose, sparse
curly hair and beard, and moustaches. Inscribed
©eo^pacrros in characters copied from those on the term
with the name of Theophrastus in the Villa Albani.
The inscription is certainly modern, and so perhaps is
the head.— Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 4 inches. For the term in the Villa Albani, cf.
Bernoulli, Griech. Ikonographie, I., p. 99, pi. 13. For other
examples, see ibid.
1843. (Plate XL) Epicurus. Bearded head, with long-drawn
face and heavy brow, with locks of hair. The neck has
been anciently fitted into a socket.
The type of features of Epicurus is well ascertained.
It is established by an inscribed bronze bust, found in a
villa at Herculaneum, and by an inscribed double term
(of Epicurus and Metrodorus) in the Capitoline Museum.
Having regard to the fact mentioned both by Cicero
(de Fin., v., 1) and by Pliny (H.N., xxxv., 5), that the
sect of Epicurus placed everywhere the portrait of their