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TEKKA-COTTA FIGUEINES
47
i not
the seated idols:
Gf->
of beating the metal, and might make such figures as ornaments or appendages to the
implements.
When, however, we consider according to what I hear from Mr. De Cou, that there
were also comparatively few specimens of bronzes in the Dipylon (i. e. the " Attn;
Geometric ") style, and that, as I hear from Dr. Hoppin, even the vases of this style are
of small number compared to those of the other classes, we are tempted to conclude
that the people who represented this technique did not dwell so long on this site, and
were either assimilated rapidly, or were not adapted to leave a lasting stamp upon art
production.
The fifth stage is reached in that a marked advance is made ;
namely, the bird face is super-
seded by the human face (Fig.
21). To the profuse and
elaborate decorations round
neck, breast, and shoulders of
the second type, we here have
added most elaborate head-
dresses, in which I can see not
only varieties of the polos,
but also floral ornamentations
which probably refer to the
Antheia side of the Hera cult,
and for which flowers from the
river Asterion were woven
into wreaths. How long this
human shape of Heraeum fig-
urines continued Ave cannot
determine. We are, however,
actually at the gates of re-
corded history when we learn '
that the Argive type of the
human-shaped Hera was car-
ried to Samos by Procles, the
son of Pityreus, when the lat-
ter was expelled by the Dori-
ans from Epidaurus. This
would bring lis to about the year 1000 b. c. This human-shaped image superseded the
sards, or board-shaped idol, which was previously worshiped at Samos.2
The next (sixth) class, though not numerous, shows in subject, technique, and style
the infusion of oriental influence.
After this sixth category, our terra-cottas lead us to the archaic Greek type of figurine
corresponding to the erect or etas-shaped statues of the class of the Artemis found at
Delos.'2
An eighth class is distinguished from this as marking the advanced archaism of the
close of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries B. c.; until, finally, we have
1 Pans. VII. 4. 4 ; Menoilotus of Samos up. Atheu.
XV. 672a.
Fig. 21.-
FlGURE OF ADVANCED AkGIVE STYLE (WITH HUMAN FACE).
From the Heraeum.
- Clement Alex. Protrept. IV. 18, p. 1S4.
47
i not
the seated idols:
Gf->
of beating the metal, and might make such figures as ornaments or appendages to the
implements.
When, however, we consider according to what I hear from Mr. De Cou, that there
were also comparatively few specimens of bronzes in the Dipylon (i. e. the " Attn;
Geometric ") style, and that, as I hear from Dr. Hoppin, even the vases of this style are
of small number compared to those of the other classes, we are tempted to conclude
that the people who represented this technique did not dwell so long on this site, and
were either assimilated rapidly, or were not adapted to leave a lasting stamp upon art
production.
The fifth stage is reached in that a marked advance is made ;
namely, the bird face is super-
seded by the human face (Fig.
21). To the profuse and
elaborate decorations round
neck, breast, and shoulders of
the second type, we here have
added most elaborate head-
dresses, in which I can see not
only varieties of the polos,
but also floral ornamentations
which probably refer to the
Antheia side of the Hera cult,
and for which flowers from the
river Asterion were woven
into wreaths. How long this
human shape of Heraeum fig-
urines continued Ave cannot
determine. We are, however,
actually at the gates of re-
corded history when we learn '
that the Argive type of the
human-shaped Hera was car-
ried to Samos by Procles, the
son of Pityreus, when the lat-
ter was expelled by the Dori-
ans from Epidaurus. This
would bring lis to about the year 1000 b. c. This human-shaped image superseded the
sards, or board-shaped idol, which was previously worshiped at Samos.2
The next (sixth) class, though not numerous, shows in subject, technique, and style
the infusion of oriental influence.
After this sixth category, our terra-cottas lead us to the archaic Greek type of figurine
corresponding to the erect or etas-shaped statues of the class of the Artemis found at
Delos.'2
An eighth class is distinguished from this as marking the advanced archaism of the
close of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries B. c.; until, finally, we have
1 Pans. VII. 4. 4 ; Menoilotus of Samos up. Atheu.
XV. 672a.
Fig. 21.-
FlGURE OF ADVANCED AkGIVE STYLE (WITH HUMAN FACE).
From the Heraeum.
- Clement Alex. Protrept. IV. 18, p. 1S4.