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Votive Reliefs in the Acropolis Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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The Terra-cotta reliefs which form the subject of the present article have been for some years one of the minor attractions of the Acropolis Museum, and I am indebted for permission to publish them to the kindness of the Ephor General M. Cavvadias, and of the Ephors, MM. Staïs and Castriotis. The latter as superintendent of the Museum most obligingly put at my disposal all the information in his possession and afforded me every facility for photographing the tablets. No single tablet in the collection is perfect and of the 73 fragments which comprise it, the great majority came to light during the systematic excavations of the Acropolis which were carried on from 1885–1890; they were all found at some depth below the surface and as far as could be learnt, to the north, the east and the south-east of the Parthenon. The rest have been in the Museum since 1863; these were all found on or near the surface and it is possible that others were carried away by visitors and are now hidden in private collections. The publication of the Museum fragments may lead to their identification and the completion of some of the tablets whose design cannot at present be determined.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1897

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page 306 note 1 Reg. Nos. 1318–1391.

page 307 note 1 Arch. Anzeiger, 1893, pp. 140–148.

page 307 note 2 Suidas, s.v. Procharisteria.

page 307 note 3 Eustath. on Z 91, p. 627.

page 308 note 1 Apoll. iii. 12, 3.

page 308 note 2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Ooins of Troas, Plate XI.3–7.

page 308 note 3 Paus. vii. 5, 9.

page 308 note 4 v. 735; xiv. 178.

page 308 note 5 iii. in Venerem, lines 14–15.

page 308 note 6 Praec. de rei. ger. 5.

page 308 note 7 Soph. Frag. Dindorf 724.

page 308 note 8 Paus. i. 24, 3.

page 308 note 9 C.I.A. iii. 1330.

page 309 note 1 Two examples.

(1) Reg. No. 1327; length 0·19 cent. × 0·16. Traces of black on chair. See Plate.

(2) 1330; length 0·22 × 0·16. Drapery incised. Traces of red on footstool, kerchief, and rim, and of blue on background. Found 1886 ‘near the old wall’ in the forecourt of the museum.

All the drawings in the text have been skilfully put together by Mr. F. Anderson from my photographs. The left hand in Fig. 1 is restored from a vase-painting.

page 310 note 1 Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiv. ‘Praxiteles fecit item catagusam.’ For κατάγєιν in this sense see Plat., Soph. p. 226bGoogle Scholar, Pollux, vii. 29, &c. See also Förster, loc. cit. p. 719.

page 310 note 2 Two examples:

Reg. No. 1338 (Pl. ix. 2). Upper part of relief 0·15 × 0·16. Stephané red, background blue. Hair and chiton incised. Traces of burning.

Reg. No. 1337; 0·14 × 0·15. Slight traces of blue on background and of red on chair.

page 311 note 1 Gerh., A. V. iv. 242Google Scholar, 1. This vase has disappeared and has apparently not been seen since the publication by Gerhard. It is not in Berlin.

page 311 note 2 C.I.A. 477. Completed B.C.H. vol. xiii. pp. 170, 1, No. 6.

page 311 note 3 Reg. No. 1321; 0·10 × 0·9. Background blue, hair red.

No. 1318; 0·4 × 0·2.

No. 1355; 0·6 long × 0·2.

page 312 note 1 Fifteen large fragments, of which the most important are: Reg. No. 1333. Plate viii., Fig. 1. 0·22 × 0·16.

Background blue, chariot and robe red, aegis black border.

Casque of helmet black, crest red, lips red.

Owl yellow-brown, details in black.

Reg. No. 1335; 0·22 × 16.

Reg. No. 1341, showing left side of tablet; 0·18 × 0.8.

Reg. No. 1322; zigzag pattern in grey lines on the aegis.

page 312 note 2 Two specimens:

Reg. No. 1334. Plate viii. 2. 0·15 × 0·16.

Reg. 1340. Fig. 4. 0·10 × 0·9.

page 312 note 3 Reg. No. 1336; 0·12 × 0·14.

Colouring as in 2. Relief 1½ cent. high.

page 313 note 1 Ael. de Nat. Anim. x. 37.

page 313 note 2 Schol. ad Arist., Equites, 1102Google Scholar.

page 314 note 1 Ion 1000, and a gem in the Brit. Mus.: Murray, , Handbook of Arch. Pl. XII. 9Google Scholar.

page 314 note 2 Apoll. i. 6, 2.

page 314 note 3 For a discussion of this question see Reichel, , Homerische Waffen, pp. 6572Google Scholar.

page 315 note 1 Gerh., A. V. ii. 127Google Scholar.

page 315 note 2 B.M. First Vase Room, Case A, No. A 750.

page 315 note 3 Apoll. ii. 4, 3, 7.

page 316 note 1 Two examples:

Reg. No. 1367; 0·10 × 0·7. Shield black, rim red. Found 1886.

Reg. No. 1372; 0·8 × 0·7. Gorgon's eyes outlined in black.

page 316 note 2 Studniczka, , Ath. Mitth. xi. 185Google Scholar.

page 316 note 3 No. 1391.

Feet of draped figure moving to left; 0·11 × 0·7.

page 316 note 4 No. 1389.

Draped figure standing against a bench; 0·10 × 0·11. Pink in folds of drapery.

page 317 note 1 Reg. No. 1323; 0·12 × 0·9.

Hair incised. Found in 1886. Reisch, , Ath. Mitth. 1887Google Scholar.