Part 23 (1/2)

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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*.

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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.

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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.

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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.