A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 23

[Sidenote: =206.=]

Figure of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back. The hair is dressed, with the headdress known as the _krobylos_.

Round the taenia are five drilled holes, indicating that a wreath of bronze was attached. The arms, and the legs from the knees are wanting.

This figure, commonly known as the Strangford Apollo, is referred by Brunn to the school of Callon of Aegina.

From the collection of _Viscount Strangford_. Stated in 1864 to be from _Lemnos_, but said also to have been found in _Anaphe_ (Newton, _Essays_, p. 81).

Marble; height, 3 feet 4 inches. _Mon. dell' Inst._, IX., pl.

41; _Annali dell' Inst._, 1872, p. 181; Brunn, _Ber. d. k. bayer.

Akad. Phil.-hist. Cla.s.se_, 1872, p. 529; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 181, fig. 40; Murray, I., pl. 2; Rayet et Thomas, _Milet et le Golfe Latmique_, pl. 28; Brunn, _Denkmaeler_, No. 51; Wolters, No. 89; _Arch. Zeit._, 1864, p. 164*.

[Sidenote: =207.=]

Torso of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back.

The head, arms, and legs from the knees are wanting; two points of attachment near the front of the hips, show that the arms were considerably bent at the elbows.

This figure was found in the _Dromos of a tomb at Marion (Cyprus)_.

Marble; height, 2 feet 5 inches. Herrmann, _Graberfeld von Marion_, p. 22. The tomb contained a coin of Idalium, of about 510 B.C., a gold cup with acorns _repousse_, several black figured vases, one at least of an early character, and no red figured vases.

[Sidenote: =208.=]

Head of Apollo. The hair is bound with a taenia and falls in short corkscrew curls over the forehead, and in a flowing ma.s.s down the shoulders. The sharply cut outlines of the features, and the wiry character of the hair suggest that this head is a copy of an archaic work in bronze. It has been conjectured that the head is copied from the Apollo of Canachos at Branchidae, but there is no evidence in favour of the theory, which has been given up as untenable. (Cf.

Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., i., p. 110). A bronze statuette from the Payne Knight collection, which has a better claim to be considered a copy of Apollo of Canachos, may be seen in the Bronze Room.

_Brought from Rome by Lord Cawdor, and purchased by Townley.--Townley Coll._

Parian marble; height, 1 foot 5-1/2 inches. _Specimens_, I., pls.

5, 6; _Mus. Marbles_, III., pl. 4; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, I., p. 321; Muller, _Denkmaeler_, I., pl. 4, fig. 22; Overbeck, _Gr.

Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 109, fig. 14; Wolters, No. 228; _cf._ Rayet et Thomas, _Milet et le Golfe Latmique_, pl. 37; Michaelis, _Anc. Marbles_, p. 94.

[Sidenote: =209.=]

Statue of Apollo, standing. The chief weight of the body is thrown on the right leg, while the left knee is bent, and the left foot rests lightly on the ground. The head is slightly turned to the right. The hair is dressed with the headdress known as the _krobylos_.

The left hand and right forearm, which appear to have been separate pieces, are wanting. The left hand held some attribute, perhaps a branch, for which there is a mark of attachment by the left knee. The right hand, which rested on the stump beside the right leg, seems to have held a strap.--_From the Choiseul-Gouffier Collection, 1818._

Marble; height, 5 feet 10-1/2 inches. Restored: tip of nose.

_Specimens_, II., pl. 5; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, I. p. 194; Clarac, III., pl. 482B, No. 931A; _Mus. Marbles_, XI., pl. 32; _Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, I., pl. 4; _Stereoscopic_, No. 143; Murray, I., pl. 8; Wolters, No. 221.

This statue, commonly known as the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo, together with other examples of the same type, has given rise to much discussion. The chief replica is a statue at Athens, commonly called the 'Apollo on the Omphalos,' having been a.s.sociated with a marble _omphalos_, or sacred cone of Apollo, which was discovered at the same time. Grave doubts, however, exist as to the connection of the figure and of the omphalos. (_Journ. of h.e.l.len.

Studies_, I., p. 180; _Athenische Mittheilungen_, IX., p. 248.) The Athenian statue is published, Conze, _Beitrage_, pls. 3, 5; _Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, I., pl. 5; Murray, I., pl. 8; Brunn, _Denkmaeler_, No. 42. For a list of other replicas of the type, see _Athenische Mittheilungen_, IX., p. 239. The statue is generally taken to be an Apollo. It has, indeed, been argued that it is a pugilist, and not Apollo (Waldstein, _Journ. of h.e.l.len.

Studies_, I., p. 182; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., II., p.

414); and if the figure is Apollo, it must be admitted that 'the proportions are rather suited to the patron of pugilism (_Il._ [Greek: psi.] 660) than to the leader of a celestial orchestra'

(_Specimens_, II., pl. 5; _Athenische Mittheilungen_, IX., p.

244). But the t.i.tle is established by a quiver attached to the stump of a replica in Rome (Matz-Duhn, _Bildw. in Rom_, I., No.

179), and of a somewhat similar figure at Ca.s.sel (_Athenische Mittheilungen_, I., pl. 10), and by the fact that a copy (No. 210) has been found in the temple of Apollo at Cyrene. Moreover, the head of a similar figure, undoubtedly an Apollo, occurs on a relief in the Capitoline Museum (Braun, _Vorschule der Kunstmythologie_, pl. 5). Compare also the figure of Apollo on a vase at Bologna, _Mon. dell' Inst._, X., pl. 54. There has also been much discussion as to the school of art to which the type must be a.s.signed, and as to the character of the original statue.

The statue has been a.s.signed by different writers to Calamis ("Apollo Alexikakos"; Conze, _Beitrage_, p. 19; Murray, I., p. 189; Furtwaengler, in Roscher's _Lexicon_, I., p. 456); to Pasiteles (Kekule, _Menelaos_, p. 30); to Alcamenes (Furtwaengler, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, V., p. 39; _cf. Journ. of h.e.l.len.

Studies_, VIII., p. 41); to Pythagoras of Rhegium ("Euthymos"; Waldstein, _loc. cit._); and to Callimachos ("Apollo Daphnephoros"; Schreiber, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, IX., p.

248). It has been variously held that the original statue was of bronze, and is therefore lost (_Mus. Marbles_, XI., pl. 32; _cf._ Murray, I., p. 191), or that the Athenian statue is the original, whence other copies are derived (_Athenische Mittheilungen_, IX., p. 240).

The _krobylos_ seems to indicate some Attic sculptor of the first half of the 5th cent. B.C. (Schreiber, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, VIII., p. 255). The existence of numerous copies proves that the original was famous, and it is generally supposed that the figure is an Apollo. It is impossible to make a more definite statement with confidence, in the present state of our knowledge as to the Attic sculptors who preceded Pheidias.

[Sidenote: =210.=]

Head of Apollo, a replica of No. 209. The head is broken off in the middle of the neck. The chin, the tip of the nose, and parts of the hair are wanting. The author of this copy has misunderstood the arrangement of the headdress.--Found by Smith and Porcher in the _Temple of Apollo at Cyrene_.

Marble; height, 11 inches; Smith and Porcher, p. 100 No. 19 Murray, I., p. 190.

[Sidenote: =211.=]

Head of Apollo, a replica of No. 209. The head is broken off below the chin. The nose and the tip of the chin are wanting.

This copy shows better than either 209 or 210, the arrangement of the hair in the _krobylos_, the origin of the plaits being clearly indicated. It chiefly differs from them in the amount of hair falling down at the back of the ears; in this head there are the remains of thick tresses, while in the other instances there are only a few short curls. There is a rectangular hole at the back of the head.--_Presented by the Hon. E. A. Pelham._

Marble; height, 9-1/2 inches. This head was found in 1882 at a cottage at Ventnor, built by Sir Richard Worsley. It was, doubtless, brought by him from Greece.

MISCELLANEOUS SCULPTURES.

[Sidenote: =215.=]

Fragment of lacunar, from a ceiling, with two panels in low relief.

(1) Horse galloping to the right. (2) Gryphon seizing a stag.

Below is a band of rosettes in squares. The whole is surrounded by remains of a large bead ornament.--_Presented by Algernon, fourth Duke of Northumberland._

Green limestone (?); height, 1 foot 1-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.

[Sidenote: =216.=]

Fragment of lacunar nearly similar to preceding. The upper panel is wanting. Below is a Gryphon seizing a stag. Below is a band of rosettes; between the two panels is a band of maeander pattern.--_Presented by Algernon, fourth Duke of Northumberland._

Green limestone (?); height, 9-1/4 inches; width, 10-1/4 inches.

[Sidenote: =217.=]

Fragment of relief. On a pedestal is a lion, walking to the left.

Before the lion are three b.a.l.l.s. Above were two figures standing to the front, of which only the feet remain. The figure on the left stood with feet side by side; that on the right stood with the legs crossed (Fig. 4). This relief, though undoubtedly archaic, appears not to belong to the prehistoric period of Mycenae (_cf._ Nos.

1-6).--_Mycenae._ _Inwood Coll._

Green limestone; height, 1 foot 1-1/4 inches; width, 9-1/2 inches.

_Synopsis_, No. 429; Loeschcke, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, IV., p. 296; Wolters, No. 53.