Fragment of relief. Zeus, wearing a mantle, is seated on a stool
(_diphros_). His left arm is raised, as if resting on a sceptre. The
right hand is extended. Near him is Hera, standing, with her right
arm across her breast and her left hand raised to her veil. The relief
which is only complete at the right side, was bounded by pilasters
and an architrave. The missing part may have contained the figures of
suppliants.--_Athens (?)._ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 1 foot 2 inches.
_Synopsis_, No. 376 (227); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 37, fig. 2;
cf. Schöne, _Griechische Reliefs_, pl. 25, figs. 104, 105.
[Sidenote: =771.=]
Relief from the upper part of an inscribed stelè. Athenè, standing
on the right of the scene, places with her right hand a wreath on the
head of a male figure less in stature. On the left is a draped female
figure holding out in her right hand a wreath or a cup. The left hand
of this figure is raised to the level of the top of her head, as
if resting on a staff. She wears a long chiton, over which is a
diploïdion reaching nearly to the knees. A short mantle hangs on her
left arm. Athenè is clad in a long chiton with diploïdion; her left
hand rests on the edge of her shield at her side.
From a comparison of this relief, with other similar compositions
from Athens, it is probable that it is the heading broken off from an
honorary decree of the Athenian people by which a crown was conferred
on some city or individual for services. (Compare above, p. 303;
Schöne, _Griech. Reliefs_, pl. 16, fig. 75, p. 41; and the fragment,
No. 772.)
The figure of Athenè here as on many other reliefs is in its general
outlines copied from the Athenè Parthenos of Pheidias. (Compare
Michaelis, pl. 15, figs. 6-17.)--_Athens (?)._ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 11 inches; width, 1 foot 4-1/2 inches.
_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 35, fig. 4; _Synopsis_, No. 375 (82);
_Elgin Room Guide_, Part II., No. F. 4.
[Sidenote: =772.=]
Fragment of relief from the upper part of an inscribed stelè. Athenè
stands on the right; with her right hand she places a crown on the
head of a youth, who stands facing her on the left. He is clad in a
mantle. Athenè wears a crested helmet and a long chiton, over which
is a diploïdion; on her breast is the aegis; her left hand holds her
shield which rests on the ground on its edge. The relief was bounded
by pilasters and a pediment. It is probable that originally a third
figure balanced the figure of Athenè, as in the preceding relief, No.
771.
This figure of Athenè, like the preceding, is in its general outlines
copied from the Athenè Parthenos of Pheidias.--_Athens (?)._ _Elgin
Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 9-1/2 inches.
_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 36, fig. 1; _Synopsis_, No. 371 (89);
_Elgin Room Guide_, Part II., No. F. 5. For similar subjects,
see Schöne, _Griech. Reliefs_, pl. 22, No. 96; Wolters, Nos.
1157-1181.
[Sidenote: =773.=]
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