[158] For example, Dr. Waldstein, in the first volume of the _Journal
of Hellenic Studies_, p. 168.
[159] _Athen. Mittheil._ iv. pl. iii.
[160] I. 90. τειχίζειν δὲ ... φειδομένους μήτε ἰδίου μήτε δημοσίου
οἰκοδομήματος.
[161] The head also does not belong to the statue, and the right arm
and other parts are restorations. See the Berlin _Denkmäler_, i. pl.
31, 32.
[162] For the basket see Fig. 62: for the attitude cf. Pl. XXVI.
Epigrams to be placed on tombs adorned with statues of women are to be
found in the _Anthology_, vii. 649, &c. As a replica of the ‘Penelope’
in very high relief exists in the Vatican, we may regard it as likely
that the original was not entirely detached from the background.
[163] Athens _Cat._ No. 218.
[164] Athens _Cat._ No. 219.
[165] e.g. Kaibel, No. 505, from Tricca. The formula of dedication is
Ἑρμάον Χθονίου.
[166] See Plates XXV, XXVI.
[167] _Athen. Mittheil._ iv. pl. i, ii. Cf. _C. A. G._ pl. i.
[168] Michaelis, _Ancient Marbles in Great Britain_, p. 385, whence our
engraving is taken.
[169] _C. A. G._ pl. iv. As to the pentathlon, see the _Journ. Hell.
Stud._ i. p. 210.
[170] _Athen. Mittheil._ iii. pl. 14.
[171] These are lost, but the holes in which they were fixed remain
over the forehead.
[172] Reins, sword, and lance were added in metal, as is shown by the
remaining holes in which these were fixed. Colour was doubtless freely
added.
[173] _Bull. Corr. Hellén._ iv. pl. 7.
[174] Athens _Cat._ No. 873.
[175] Athens _Cat._ No. 828.
[176] It has been suggested that the gesture is one of adoration in
presence of the deities of the next world.
[177] _Anthologia_, vii. 338.
[178] For instance, Athens _Cat._ No. 1192.
[179] At Rome. Published in the _Ann. e Mon. dell’ Inst._ 1855, pl. xv.
Cf. Friedrichs-Wolters, _Gipsabgüsse_, No. 1010.
[180] Athens _Cat._ No. 752.
[181] VII. 279.
[182] Athens _Cat._ No. 731.
[183] _C. A. G._ pl. xv.
[184] _C. A. G._ pl. xvii.
[185] _Br. Mus. Cat. of Marbles_, No. 721; _Mus. Marb._ ix. pl. 38.
[186] _Journ. Hell. Stud._ vi. pl. B.
[187] Such as Friedrichs-Wolters _Gipsabgüsse_, No. 1024: _Arch.
Zeitung_, 1871, pl. 53.
[188] _Anthol. Palat._ vi. 280.
[189] Athens _Cat._ No. 1196.
[190] _C. A. G._ pl. xxxvii.
[191] _Museum Marbles_, x. 3.
[192] Athens _Cat._ No. 711.
[193] Ibid. No. 765; _C. A. G._ pl. xlviii.
[194] The two notions that in such groups it is always the seated or
that it is always the standing person who is dead are alike fallacious.
[195] Kaibel, No. 557.
[196] _C. A. G._ Nos. 134, 139.
[197] Ibid. No. 158.
[198] Athens _Cat._ No. 717.
[199] Athens _Cat._ No. 870.
[200] Ibid. No. 749. A photograph of the relief being unsatisfactory,
we copy the engraving at p. 70 of the _C. A. G._
[201] VII. 730, by Perses.
[202] _C. A. G._ No. 333, pl. lxxxiv.
[203] I have a vivid recollection of the admiration expressed for the
examples in the British Museum by Mr. Ruskin.
[204] Pl. xxxix; cf. Athens _Cat._ No. 724.
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