Walters, Henry Beauchamp: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1899)

TIIE PARAMYTIilA BRONZES.

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276. Zeus Serapis. He is seated with 1. arm (now lost) extended, and has
rich curly hair and beard, high polos, long chiton, himation over lower limbs,
chlamys over 1. shoulder, and sandals.

Ht. 6j in. From Paramythia. Payne Knight Coll. (lxxviii. i). Spec. Ant. Sculpt.
i. pl. 63 ; Clarac, Musde de Sculpt. iii. pl. 398, 670; Overbeck, Kunstmythol. (Zeus), p. 314,

No. 11 ; Lafaye, Culte des Divinitfo d’Alexandrie, p. 274, No. 33; Journ. Hell. Stud. vi.
p. 295. Left foot and both arms lost; also the seat. The head resembles that of the
Otricoli Zeus.

277. One of the Dioseuri, probably Castor. He stands with 1. leg drawn Plate VI.
back, and face slightly upturned to his right ; he is beardless, with rich curly

hair, conical cap, and chlamys doubled on 1. shoulder, passing over 1. fore-arm.

His r. hand is slightly advanced ; both hands appear to have held something,

and from the action of the 1. hand, he may have been leading a horse. In

the cap, over the centre of the forehead, is a hole in which has probably been
fixed a star. The eyes have been inlaid with silver. The figure is dignified,
the style and execution good.

Ht. 13 in. From Paramythia. Payne Knight Coll. (xxix. 1). Spec. Ant. Sailpt. ii.

pl. 22; Clarac, Musfo de Sculpt. v. pl. 834 B, 2041 A ; Roscher, Lexicon, i. p. 1175 (s.v.

Dioskuren) ; Mansell, Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 737. The second finger of right hand
lost; dark green patina.

278. Ganymedes (?). He stands on 1. foot, with r. leg drawn back and r. hand Plate VII.
raised ; he is beardless, with thick curls tied in a bow over the forehead, sandals,

and upper and under chiton reaching to the knees, with broad girdle and
looped-up sleeves with silver studs.

Ht. 9 in. Found in 1792 at Paramythia with No. 272. Payne Knight Coll. (xxxvii. 1).

Spec. Ant. Sculpt. ii. pl. 24. Left fore-arm lost. Compare the types of Lares (Nos. 1562-1580).

279. Dione or Aphrodite. She stands with 1. leg advanced and 1. hand Plate VI.
extended palm downwards, wearing a fillet, sandals, and long sleeved chiton

with studs on the sleeves, which has slipped off her 1. shoulder ; her hair is
parted and waved, and gathered in a knot at the neck, falling in two ringlets on
each shoulder ; over her 1. arm and lower limbs is a himation, and on her head
rests a dove with outspread wings as if brooding. The eyes are inlaid with
silver; the r. hand probably held a spear, the 1. resting on a shield (?).

Ht. 12 in. From Paramythia. Payne Knight Coll. (xxviii. 3). Spec. Ant. Sculpt. ii.
pl. 23; Clarac, Musfo de Sculpt. iv. pl. 593, 1290 A; Kohler, Ges. Schriften, vi. p. 35 ;

Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 110; Mansell, Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 738. Right arm lost
and left hand injured. The twisted folds of the himation below the waist in front were modern,
but this restoration has been removed (cf. the illustration in the Spec. Ant. Sculpt.).

280. Aphrodite. She stoops forward, as if to adjust her left sandal, with 1. Plate VII.
leg raised and bent, and 1. hand raised, the fingers bent as if having held some