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That the statue was celebrated in antiquity is sufficiently attested by the number of
replicas (e.g. Lansdowne House, Michaelis 10; British Museum, No. 2065, lower part of
torso only'4; Athens, from Hieron of Epidauros, Curtius, Fig. 7; another from an Antonine
building near the modern Zappeion, E.V. 782 = Curtius, Fig. 8; Rome, Coll. Sciarra, after-
wards in the market;'5 another in the Vatican Gardens, E.V. 782 = Curtius, Fig. 9;16
Constantinople, statuette, headless, in the Ottoman Museum: G. Mendel, Sculptures de
Constantinople, ill. 808. Erich Preuner in Ath. Mitt, xlvi, 1921, p. 2, mentions a replica
as in Coll. J. Sotiriadis. Still another is in Venice, E.V. 2650. Two others, Professor
Curtius informs me on the authority of Professor Waldhauer, are in the Hermitage.'7 An
interesting replica, life-size, was found in September 1915 by P. Orsi at Messina under the
site of the Convent of Franciscan Friars Minor, close to the Cathedral at a depth of 4.5 m.
below the present level, among remains of antique structures of different epochs (see
Monumenti antichi dei Lincei for 1915). Unfortunately nothing could be ascertained as to
the locality in antiquity, nor whether a shrine of Hygieia, to which the statue belonged,
had ever stood on this spot. Besides these statues there are a number of variant versions
and derivatives, one of which is in this collection (No. 5).
A number of replicas of the head alone also exist, of which the finest are in Athens (position
reversed, described by H. Bulle, E.V. 647-9); m Vienna (Von Sacken, Antike Sculpturen...
in Wien, PI. XII = S. Reinach, Monuments nouveaux de I'Art antique, 1924, Fig. 424); in the
Terme (Helbig-Amelung 1341); besides the fragment at Athens lately identified by Mr.
Ashmole as probably from the original statue.'8
From the time of its discovery at Ostia, where it adorned the niche of an Antonine
building, the Hope statue has been well known and much admired, but it acquired greater
fame in 1893, owing to the discovery in that year of a magnificent replica of the head in
the stadium or winter-garden of the Palatine. The Palatine head, since removed to the
Terme (Fig. 2), is of the finest crystalline Parian marble; it was held by not a few to be the
original, being moreover misnamed Sappho '9 for a time, though it was soon recognized by
Amelung, Helbig, Curtius, and others to be a finer and earlier replica of the head of the
Hope type. In 1904 L. Curtius contributed to the Archaologisches Jahrbuch an illuminat-
ing and learned paper on the type of Hygieia represented by the Hope statue and its many
replicas, carefully analysing the head in the Terme, which he referred to an original of
fourth-century date and of the Hope type. In opposition to many others, he looked upon
it as only a copy, basing his opinion on the very perfection of the workmanship and the
absence of that spontaneity which may be looked for in an original. Amelung also held
that the head was only a later replica, though mainly on the ground that he believed—
as he did to the end—that the original was a bronze. The next event in the history of this
type of Hygieia was the detection by Mr. Ashmole, in the Museum of the Acropolis, of
a fragment of head (Figs. 3, 3% and 4) of purest fourth-century workmanship, which he
recognized as being still another and much finer replica of the Terme, Vienna, and Hope
heads. This fragment he further believes, from its provenance, to belong to the actual
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replicas (e.g. Lansdowne House, Michaelis 10; British Museum, No. 2065, lower part of
torso only'4; Athens, from Hieron of Epidauros, Curtius, Fig. 7; another from an Antonine
building near the modern Zappeion, E.V. 782 = Curtius, Fig. 8; Rome, Coll. Sciarra, after-
wards in the market;'5 another in the Vatican Gardens, E.V. 782 = Curtius, Fig. 9;16
Constantinople, statuette, headless, in the Ottoman Museum: G. Mendel, Sculptures de
Constantinople, ill. 808. Erich Preuner in Ath. Mitt, xlvi, 1921, p. 2, mentions a replica
as in Coll. J. Sotiriadis. Still another is in Venice, E.V. 2650. Two others, Professor
Curtius informs me on the authority of Professor Waldhauer, are in the Hermitage.'7 An
interesting replica, life-size, was found in September 1915 by P. Orsi at Messina under the
site of the Convent of Franciscan Friars Minor, close to the Cathedral at a depth of 4.5 m.
below the present level, among remains of antique structures of different epochs (see
Monumenti antichi dei Lincei for 1915). Unfortunately nothing could be ascertained as to
the locality in antiquity, nor whether a shrine of Hygieia, to which the statue belonged,
had ever stood on this spot. Besides these statues there are a number of variant versions
and derivatives, one of which is in this collection (No. 5).
A number of replicas of the head alone also exist, of which the finest are in Athens (position
reversed, described by H. Bulle, E.V. 647-9); m Vienna (Von Sacken, Antike Sculpturen...
in Wien, PI. XII = S. Reinach, Monuments nouveaux de I'Art antique, 1924, Fig. 424); in the
Terme (Helbig-Amelung 1341); besides the fragment at Athens lately identified by Mr.
Ashmole as probably from the original statue.'8
From the time of its discovery at Ostia, where it adorned the niche of an Antonine
building, the Hope statue has been well known and much admired, but it acquired greater
fame in 1893, owing to the discovery in that year of a magnificent replica of the head in
the stadium or winter-garden of the Palatine. The Palatine head, since removed to the
Terme (Fig. 2), is of the finest crystalline Parian marble; it was held by not a few to be the
original, being moreover misnamed Sappho '9 for a time, though it was soon recognized by
Amelung, Helbig, Curtius, and others to be a finer and earlier replica of the head of the
Hope type. In 1904 L. Curtius contributed to the Archaologisches Jahrbuch an illuminat-
ing and learned paper on the type of Hygieia represented by the Hope statue and its many
replicas, carefully analysing the head in the Terme, which he referred to an original of
fourth-century date and of the Hope type. In opposition to many others, he looked upon
it as only a copy, basing his opinion on the very perfection of the workmanship and the
absence of that spontaneity which may be looked for in an original. Amelung also held
that the head was only a later replica, though mainly on the ground that he believed—
as he did to the end—that the original was a bronze. The next event in the history of this
type of Hygieia was the detection by Mr. Ashmole, in the Museum of the Acropolis, of
a fragment of head (Figs. 3, 3% and 4) of purest fourth-century workmanship, which he
recognized as being still another and much finer replica of the Terme, Vienna, and Hope
heads. This fragment he further believes, from its provenance, to belong to the actual
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