Female figure, enthroned. The left arm is wrapped in the
mantle.--_Temenos of Aphroditè._
Limestone; height, 3-1/2 inches. _Naukratis_, II., pl. 14, fig. 3.
[Sidenote: =127.=]
Isis and Osiris (?). Female figure, enthroned, wearing close-fitting
dress, necklace, and large mantle passing over the back of her head.
She holds a nude figure of a boy at her breast. Red paint on the
veil.--_Temenos of Aphroditè._
Limestone; height, 4-3/4 inches. _Naukratis_, II., pl. 14, fig. 7.
FRAGMENT FROM DELOS.
[Sidenote: =130.=]
Fragment of a foot of a colossal statue of Apollo, together with a
part of the plinth in the same block. The fragment consists of parts
of the four greater toes of the left foot. The plinth has dowel holes
at each side.
Naxian marble (?). Length of great toe, 1 foot 2 inches; height of
plinth, 2 feet 1 inch. This fragment was found by W. Kennard at
Delos, in 1818. Stuart, 2nd edit., III., p. 127; IV., section on
Delos, pl. 4, fig. 2. It is no doubt a part of a colossal statue
which was dedicated by the Naxians to Apollo at Delos, and of
which the base and other parts still remain _in situ_. The base
is inscribed on one side, [Greek: Naxioi Apollôni], and on another
side in archaic letters, [Greek: Tawytou lithou eim' andrias kai
to sphelas]: "I am of the same stone both statue and base." It is
supposed that this is "the great statue of the Naxians" at
Delos, which, it is said, was overturned by the fall of a brazen
palm-tree dedicated by Nicias (Plutarch, _Nicias_, 3).
The first modern traveller who saw the statue was Bondelmonte
(A.D. 1416), who found it prostrate, and says that he made an
unsuccessful attempt to set it up (_Liber Insularum Archipelagi_,
Sinner's edit., p. 92). In 1447 Cyriac of Ancona sketched the base
with one foot still in position (_Bull. dell' Inst._, 1861, p.
182). When visited by Spon and Wheler in 1675, the head, hands and
feet were lost, but the torso appears to have been nearly complete
(Wheler, _Journey_, p. 56). In 1700 Tournefort only found the
lower part of the body, and the thighs (Eng. ed. of 1741, vol. I.,
pl. facing p. 303). The parts seen by Tournefort remain at Delos,
and have been described by several travellers. Welcker, _Alte
Denkmaeler_, I., p. 400; Michaelis, _Annali dell' Inst._, 1864, p.
253; Furtwaengler, _Arch. Zeit._, 1882, p. 329. For the base and
inscription, see Blouet, _Exp. de Morée_, III., pl. 3, figs. 3, 4
_Bull. de Corr. Hellénique_, III., p. 2.
CASTS FROM SELINUS.
The following sculptures, Nos. 135-139, were excavated at Selinus
in 1823 by the architects William Harris and Samuel Angell. They are
divided into two series, derived from different temples.
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