The series of figures which have the hands by the thighs is older than
that in which the hands are raised, and the invention of the type has
been assigned to the Cretan Daedalid School of Dipoinos and Skyllis
(Furtwaengler, _Arch. Zeit._, 1882, p. 55). For an enumeration and
discussion of the known examples of this series see Overbeck, _Gr.
Plast._, 3rd ed., i., p. 229, note 33; _Bull. de Corr. Hellénique_,
x., p. 67; xi., p. 1; _Gaz. Arch._, 1886, p. 239; Roscher, _Lexicon_,
i, p. 449; Wolters, No. 14. The second series, here represented by
Nos. 206, 207, in which the hands are raised, is developed from the
first, but shows a great advance in all respects. Perhaps it gives the
Cretan type as developed by artists of the school of Aegina.
[Sidenote: =200.=]
Figure of Apollo (?) standing with the right leg drawn back, and
with the hands pressed against the hips. He has a diadem across
the forehead, and the hair falls on the shoulders and down the
back.--_Naucratis._
Alabaster; height, 10-1/4 inches.
[Sidenote: =201.=]
Apollo (?) standing. Torso from the neck to the knees. The right leg
is drawn back, and the hands are pressed against the thighs. The hair
falls down on the shoulders and on the back.--_Naucratis._
Alabaster; height, 4-3/8 inches.
[Sidenote: =202.=]
Apollo. Torso from the neck to the middle of the thighs. The hands are
pressed against the thighs. The hair falls on the shoulders and on the
back. A belt crosses the body under the right arm, and over the left
shoulder.--_Temenos of Apollo, Naucratis._
Marble (?); height, 3-1/8 inches. _Naukratis_, I., pl. 1, fig. 9.
The following figures, Nos. 203, 204, belong to the same series,
though the type is slightly varied, and No. 203, having been found in
the temenos of Aphroditè, probably does not represent Apollo:--
[Sidenote: =203.=]
Male torso from the neck to the knees. The right hand lies across the
breast; the left leg is to the front. The hair is cut square at the
back, and in the front falls down on the shoulders.--_Temenos of
Aphroditè, Naucratis._
Alabaster; height, 6-1/4 inches. _Naukratis_, II., pl. 14, fig.
13.
[Sidenote: =204.=]
Apollo. Male torso, similar to the preceding, but having no hair on
the shoulders.--_Temenos of Apollo, Naucratis._
Alabaster; height, 4-3/4 inches. _Naukratis_, I., pl. 1, fig. 3.
[Sidenote: =205.=]
Figure of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back, and with
the hands pressed against the hips. The hair falls on the shoulders,
terminating in a straight line, and intersected with conventional
grooves running at right angles to each other.--_From Greece, probably
from Boeotia._
Marble; height, 2 feet 6-1/4 inches. Murray, I., pl. 2, p. 107;
_Arch. Zeit._, 1882, pl. 4, p. 51; Mitchell, p. 213; Brunn,
_Denkmaeler_, No. 77.
[Sidenote: =206.=]
Figure of Apollo (?) standing, with the right leg drawn back. The hair
is dressed, with the headdress known as the _krobylos_.
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