Parian marble; height, 1 foot 11 inches. _Exp. de Morée_, III. pl.
29, fig. 1; Müller-Wieseler, _Denkmaeler_, II., pl. 60, fig. 763;
_Overbeck_, _Gr. Kunstmyth._ pl. 2, figs. 11, 12; II., p.
88; Murray, _Greek Sculpture_, II., pl. 11, p. 130; Mitchell,
_Selections_, pl. 13; Rayet, _Monuments_, II., No. 42;
_Stereoscopic_, No. 113; Wolters, No. 1283; Paris, _La Sculpt.
Ant._, p. 221. Two votive inscriptions to Asclepios and Hygieia
were discovered with the head. One of these, with a votive relief
of a leg, is now in the British Museum (No. 809).
[Sidenote: =551.=]
Asclepios? A male draped torso broken off at the knees; the right arm
is wanting from below the shoulder, where it has been fitted with a
joint. The left arm, which is entirely concealed in the mantle, is
placed akimbo. The back is unfinished. The composition is suitable to
a figure of Asclepios, an attribution which was probably originally
suggested by the fact that this torso was obtained by Lord Elgin from
_the neighbourhood of Epidauros_. Two small fragments of the right leg
were brought away with the torso.
Parian marble; height, 3 feet 1-1/4 inches. _Mus. Marbles_, IX.,
pl. 5; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 121; _Synopsis_, No. 327;
_Elgin Room Guide_, II., No. E. 1.
[Sidenote: =552.=]
Female torso from the neck down to the waist. The dress is a chiton
with diploïdion; part of the tresses of hair which fall down on the
back still remains.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 3 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 281
(146); _Elgin Room Guide_, II., No. F. 15.
[Sidenote: =553.=]
Left breast and part of left side of female figure wearing a chiton
girt at the waist.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 3-1/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 277
(147). _Elgin Room Guide_, II., No. F. 16.
[Sidenote: =554.=]
Upper part of the torso of a female figure moving quickly to the left,
with the arms raised. She wears a sleeveless chiton which appears to
have been unsewn (_schistos_) down the right side. The shoulders
are broken, but there are remains of large dowel holes as if for the
insertion of wings, and the figure is not unlike the Victories on the
balustrade of the temple of Nikè.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot. _Synopsis_, No. 321 (79).
[Sidenote: =555.=]
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