A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 11

Part of the front leg of the chair to which No. 47 belongs.

Height, 2-1/4 inches; width, 2 inches.

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Unintelligible fragment, perhaps derived from the cornice.

Length, 1 foot; height, 6 inches; width, 7 inches.

_Fragments of Lions' Heads, from the Cornice._

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Left side of lion's mane, with remains showing the attachment to the cornice.

Height, 1 foot 3 inches.

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Lion's head from the cornice(?). The mouth is closed. The lower part is wanting.

Height, 1 foot 4 inches.

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Upper part of lion's head from the cornice. Red paint on the mane.

Height, 11 inches; width, 1 foot 5 inches.

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Right side of lion's head, from the cornice, with eye, ear, and part of mane.

Height, 7-1/2 inches.

OTHER FRAGMENTS FROM EPHESUS.

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Fragment of the head of an ox, apparently projecting from a background, in high relief. The head is seen in three-quarter face to the left.

Height, 1 foot; width, 1 foot 5 inches.

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Fragment of the head of an ox, including the forehead and eyes.

Apparently the head is seen in three-quarter face to the left, as in the preceding.

Height, 10-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 6 inches.

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Fragment with part of the flank of an ox (?), springing from a square base. Two horns intertwined (?) in relief on the side of the fragment. If the explanation offered is correct, the animal must have been part of an architectural member, such as occurs in the temple of Hera at Samos (Stuart, 2nd ed., vol. iv., Kinnard on Delos, pl. v.), or in the recently discovered bull's-head capital from Salamis, in Cyprus (_Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, xii., p.

134).

Height, 1 foot 2-1/2 inches.

SCULPTURES FROM CARIA.

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A series of rude figures in stone and marble which are found in primitive graves in the islands of the Aegean, and in Caria, have been conjectured by archaeologists to be works of the early Carians. The figures in question are for the most part utterly conventional and gross representations of the female form. Male figures have also been occasionally found, and more elaborate subjects, such as a seated figure playing on the harp.

The specimens in the British Museum are exhibited in the First Vase Room with the pottery found in the same deposits. They are described in the _Guide to the First Vase Room_ (1883), p. 21, and in the _Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, v., p. 50. Compare Perrot and Chipiez, v., pp. 334, 905; _Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, ix., p. 82; _Athenische Mittheilungen_, xvi., p. 46.

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Torso of female figure holding a dove between her b.r.e.a.s.t.s with the left hand, and holding with the right hand a fold of drapery by her right side. She wears a long dress, girt at the waist, with a diplodion and sleeves. The head, and the legs from above the knees are wanting.--_Theangela, in Caria._

Marble; height, 1 foot 3 inches.

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Beardless male head, having a considerable resemblance to No.

19.--_From the Temple of Apollo, Calymna._

Marble; height, 9 inches. a.s.signed by Collignon (_Gaz. Arch._, 1886, p. 239) to the same school as No. 205.

SCULPTURES FROM RHODES.

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Female head. The hair is parted over the middle of the head, and is brought in waving ripples to the ears. At the back of the head it is sketched in conventional lines. The head is bound with a taenia.--_Rhodes._

Marble; height, 8-1/2 inches.

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