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

ETRUSCAN BRONZES OF FINEST PERIOD. I I I

667. Candelabrum. On the top is a group of Peleus seizing Thetis. Peleus
stoops to r., with arms clasped round her waist, holding her r. leg fast between
his knees, face to front; he is nude and beardless. Thetis stands upright with 1.
foot advanced ; with 1. hand she endeavours to disengage Peleus’ 1. hand, while
her r. is placed on his back, and round it is twisted a snake, indicating one of her
transformations. Her hair is rolled up, with a plait or twisted fillet passing over
the forehead, and she wears a long girt chiton with looped-up sleeves. From
the top of the stem issue four branches ending in leaves, and round the bottom
of it is a pattern of close-growing leaves; the stem is fluted. The feet are in
the form of lion’s claws on plinths, with palmettes between, and a rich pattern of
palmettes in low relief round the central part.

Ht. 4 ft. 8| in. De Witte, Descr. 253.

668. Candelabrum. On the top is an athlete standingwith 1. legbent and body
thrown back, looking to his r. ; his hair is rolled up, and he holds a jumping
weight in either hand. The stem is fluted, and round the top are four branches
ending in leaves; round the lower end are moulded closely-growing leaves.
The feet are in the form of lion’s claws on plinths, with palmettes between.

Ht. 3 ft. 9j in. Canino Coll., 1837. De Witte, Descr. 255.

669. Candelabrum. On the top is an athlete standing with 1. foot advanced,
scraping his r. thigh with a strigil {airo^v6^evo<;). The stem is fluted, with four
branches ending in leaves round the top ; the feet are in the form of lion’s claws
on plinths, with palmettes between and in low relief round the central part;
round the bottom of the stem is a ring of boars’ heads, pointing upwards.

Ht. 4 ft. H in. From Vulci. Burgon Coll.

IV. LATE ETRUSCAN BRONZES, OF FREE STYLE (670-785).

A. STATUETTES (670-694).

670. Part of Group. Ajax supporting the body of Achilles. Only the 1. arm

of Ajax remains, supporting the body of Achilles round the waist; the latter
falls backwards to 1., with 1. arm hanging by his side; his feet are almost off the
ground. He is beardless, with short, thick hair, helmet with cheek-pieces turned
up and very long crest, cuirass of scales with fringed border of flaps, short chiton
to hips with scolloped border, and greaves.

Ht. 4 in. Payne Knight Coll. Right arm of Achilles lost. Compare the Pasquino group
in Rome (Friederichs-Wolters, 1397). This attribution seems more satisfactory than that of
Menelaos and Patroclos (see Overbeck, Her. Bildw. p. 551).

671. Heracles subduing the horses of Diomede; only part of the group Flate XX.
remaining. A horse rears up, while on its 1. flank Heracles runs along, pressing

his r. knee against its 1. foreleg and his head against its head ; his r. arm grasps