The head was found at a distance of two-thirds of a mile from the
torso. The torso was found in 1862 in the _Roman Theatre, at Vaison
(Vaucluse)_.
Marble; height, 6 feet 1 inch. Restorations:--Nose, fingers of
right hand, parts of left thigh and of left shin and heel; also
the upper part of the stump. The figure should perhaps be set
with the ancient surface of the base horizontal, and so lean less
forwards. _Mon. dell' Inst._, X., pl. 49, figs. 1-3; _Annali dell'
Inst._, 1878, p. 11 (Michaelis); Rayet, _Monuments_, I., No. 30
and text; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 388; Murray, I.,
pl. 10, p. 274; Wolters, No. 508.
Other examples more or less nearly reproducing this type
are:--(_a_) A bronze from the De Janzé Collection in the French
Bibliothèque Nationale. _Annali dell' Inst._, 1878, pl. B, p. 11
(Michaelis); Rayet, _Monuments_, I., No. 31; Babelon, _Le Cabinet
des Ant. à la Bibl. Nationale_, pl. 13. (_b_) A terracotta
statuette in an English private collection. _Journ. of Hellen.
Studies_, VI., p. 243, pl. 61. (_c_) A sepulchral relief from
Praeneste, in the Vatican, commemorating one Tiberius Octavius
Diadumenus, and having a relief of a Diadumenos, in allusion to
the name. Pistolesi, _Vaticano_, IV. 84. (_d_) A gem. _Journ. of
Hellen. Studies_, II. p. 352. See also No. 501.
[Sidenote: =501.=]
Graeco-Roman statue of a Diadumenos. Statue of a nude youth standing,
tying a band (taenia) about his head. Both arms were raised, but the
left is lost. This figure, like the Diadumenos of Vaison (No. 500),
stands principally on the right leg, but the left leg is differently
placed, and the whole pose is thereby altered. By the side of the
figure is a stump of a palm.
The hair falls in curls, and the figure is more youthful than the
Diadumenos of Vaison. Except in the similarity of subject these
statues have little in common, and if the Vaison figure represents
the statue of Polycleitos, this figure would appear to be either an
independent rendering of the same subject, or only remotely derived
from Polycleitos. It was, however, for a long time regarded as a copy
of the work of Polycleitos, and this view has been held by several
writers, after the discovery of the Vaison Diadumenos.--_Farnese
Coll. 1864._
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