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CATALOGUE OF BRONZES.

object for support; her hair is parted and rolled up on either side, and she wears

a sphendone.

Ht. 6|- in. From Paramythia. Payne Knight Coll. (xc. 4). Clarac, Musee de Sculpt. iv.
pl. 628, 1354 A ; Vaux, Handbook to Brit. Mus. p. 428 ; Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 332, No. 17 ;
Poltier and Reinach, N/icropole de Myrina, i. p. 286, No. 14. Right arm, two fingers of left
hand, and both legs from the knees lost; good patina.

281!. RIGHT ARM OF STATUETTE. Length 7f in. Frorn Paramythia. Payne Knight
Coll. See Spec. Ant. Scuipt. ii. p. lxvi. The third finger lost. Found with the Dionfe, No. 279.

2812. FOOT OF ANIMAL, perhaps a bull. Length 2f in. From Paramythia. Payne
Knight Coll. See Spec. Ant. Sculpt. ii. p. lxvi.

282. Aphrodite, of the type known as Euploia. She stands on r. foot, lifting
her 1. foot and bending the body forward, as if to fasten or unfasten her
sandal, which, however, is not represented ; she is nude, and her hair is gathered
under a fillet and rolled up at the back.

The original motive of this figure is known by a comparison of a number of
extant repetitions of the same composition ; the left arm rests on a column or
rudder. This bronze is distinguished from the other examples by its greater
beauty, more especially in the countenance.

Ht. 2i| in. Said to have been found near Patras, and obtained from Athens, 1865 ;
perhaps fou'nd at Olympia. Gazette Archeol. 1875, pl. 13, p. 61 j Colhgnon, Hist.de la Sculpture
Grecque, ii. p. 585 ; Klein, Praxiteles, p. 298 ; Mansell, Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 736 ;
Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 332, No. 16 ; Arch. Zeit. 1867, Aiizeiger, p. 134; Pottier and Reinach,
J.a NJcropole de Myrina, i. p. 286, No. 13 ; cf. Friederichs, Kleinere Kunst u. Jndustrie,
No. 1841. Marble statuettes of this type have been found in Cyrene (Smith and Porcher,
Discoveries, p. 96), Crete (Spratt, Crete, i. p. 72), Rhodes, Cos, and Calymnos ; the type also
occurs on the copper coins of Aphrodisias in Caria (Brit. Mus. Cat. of Coins (Caria), pl. 5,
14), and on a marble vase in Visconti, Opere Varie, i. pl. 8. Bernoulli, loc. cit., collects all
the known examples ; see also Pottier and Reinach, loc. cit. Both arms are lost, and a large
piece is broken out of the back ; the surface is in poor condition.

283. Head of Hermes. Apparently from a fourth-century statue ; hair in
short crisp curls, of Lysippian type ; nose and mouth very delicately executed ;
the eyes have been inlaid. The simplicity and beauty of the treatment in this
bronze make it probable that it is a fragment frorn a statue of the best period
of Greek art.

Ht. in. Payne Knight Coll. (lx. 21) ; formerly in the Cabinet of the Duc de Chaulnes.
Spec. Ant. Sculpt. i. pls. 18, 19; Mansell, Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 878. The back of
the head, as far as the ears, is broken away ; good patina.

284. Silenos Kistophoros. The figure stands on a triangular base like the
Nike at Olympia, and forms the lower part of a candelabrum, of which only a
calyx of leaves forming a base now exists. He wears an ivy-wreath, drapery
twisted round his loins, and sandals ; his r. hand is held downvvards, and with 1.
he supports the cista, which is of wicker-work (represented by incised patterns),