Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

MALE TORSOES.

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ankles, standing on the right leg, with the left knee bent.
A large mantle passes round the body and over the left
shoulder, leaving the right shoulder bare. He wears a
scarab suspended from a necklace. Traces of gilding
remain on the scarab.—Toivneley Coll.

Marble, partly burnt. Height, 7£ inches. Synopsis (1808), p. 108,
No. 73; Ellis, Town. Gall., L, p. 270.

2047. Male torso, from the neck to the thighs. Both arms,
now wanting, were raised above the head. The torso,
which is of muscular build, is ancient, though the treat-
ment of the pubes is peculiar.

Parian marble. Height, 9J inches.

2048. Torso, probably of a Roman emperor in armour (2nd
cent. a.d.). The head, right arm from above elbow, and
left hand and wrist, are wanting. This figure wears a
sleeved tunic reaching to the knees, over which is a
cuirass richly decorated round its lower edge with em-
bossed ornaments, of which remain the following : in the
centre, a lion's head; on the left, an eagle's head, a helmet,
a circular rosette, an Amazon's shield; on the right, two
oblong shields crossed, and a rosette. The upper part of
the cuirass has been ornamented on the right side of the
body with a winged Gryphon in relief. The cuirass is
bound with a girdle, and partially covered with the cloak,
which is fastened on the right shoulder, and falls over the
left arm. Under the cuirass hang leather straps over the
loins ; on the feet are military boots, laced over the instep,
and terminating in panther skin. By the left leg is the
stem of a tree. The attitude is that of an emperor address-
ing his soldiers.—Carthage.

Parian marble. Height (without plinth), 6 feet 5 inches. Discovered
by Sir Thos. Reade, and obtained by Dr. N. Davis, in 1857.
Grceco-Eoman Guide, EL, No. 79.