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An Unfinished Colossal Statue at Naxos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Stanley Casson
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At the north-west corner of the island of Naxos is a very small hamlet on the shore, which is called Apollonia. It consists of a score of poverty-stricken houses and a small quay, and is inhabited mainly by fishermen. It is a difficult landing in rough weather, and the small bay on which the hamlet stands affords little shelter.

On a slight rise about 100 feet above the hamlet, but near to it, is a small marble quarry which is ancient. Not far off on the same rise is a small modern marble quarry, no longer in use, but quite recently worked. At the small quayside are jetties specially made for the use of the quarry-workers and for the export of marble from the quarry. The ancient quarry-workers probably used the same small bay for the export of their marble.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 37 , November 1937 , pp. 21 - 25
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1937

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page 23 note 1 The right edge of the trench on the right of the statue has to some extent been broken away and rebuilt in recent times of loose stones.

page 25 note 1 A short note by von Massow, in Jahrb. Anzeiger, 1932, p. 266Google Scholar, is of some interest. It is there suggested that the figure is intended to be that of Dionysos and not Apollo. Von Massow dates it to the early fifth century and suggests comparison with the figure of Zeus in the Olympian pediment. But, as I have suggested above, the condition of the colossus does not allow much scope for a discussion of date or style. Beyond assuming a terminus ante quem of 450 B.C. one cannot be more precise as to its period. C. Blümel in his Griechische Bildhauerarbeit, p. 48 and Pls. 3 and 4, discusses the colossus on technical grounds.