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Statuette of Pallas from Cyprus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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Among the objects recently acquired by the British Museum is a beautiful terra-cotta from a grave at Salamis in the Island of Cyprus, of which I give a representation on Plate XVI. The figure is that of a goddess who wears a long chiton with diploïs, and a himation over her back and arms. Long tresses fall over her shoulders; on her head is apparently a stephane, though it may be intended rather for a taenia or band; in her ears are round earrings. Her right hand is passed into the interior of a crested Corinthian helmet, her left hand rests on the edge of a round shield. Her left foot is slightly drawn back, and the leg bent.
The figure is 7¼ inches in height, and stands on a square pedestal ¾ of an inch high. The back is quite unworked, and in the midst of it is the usual round hole, made to facilitate the baking. Slight traces of red colour appear on the hair of the goddess and the crest of the helmet, and we may observe on the lower part of the drapery some of the white ground-mixture with which terra-cotta figures were covered as a basis for colouring.
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page 326 note 1 That is, a metal coronet above the brow; see Gerhard, Antike Bildwerke, Pl. ccciii. The taenia or diadema, on the other hand, was a mere ribbon.
page 326 note 1 For this assertion the reader must take my word, as the engraving is not very successful. Good drawings from the antique are scarce.
page 327 note 1 Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1875, i. pp. 306 sqq.
page 327 note 2 See Kekulé, Thonfiguren aus Tanagra, Preface; Rayet, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1875, April, June, and July; Heuzey, , Mon. publ, par l'Assoc. pour l'Encouragement des Études Grecques, 1873, 4, 6Google Scholar. Gaz. d. Beaux-Arts, xii. 195.
page 329 note 1 Pausan, iii. 23, 1. Cf. Bernouilli, Aphrodite, pp. 58, 424.
page 330 note 1 Lenormant, et de Witte, , Élite céramogr. iii. Pl. 15.Google Scholar It is not impossible, however, that the introduction of the name of Aphrodite may be the mere error of a scribe.
page 330 note 2 See Welcker, , Götterlehre, ii. 708Google Scholar.
page 330 note 3 In the British Museum vase No. 584, for instance, where her name is written on the vase.
page 330 note 4 viii. 31, 1.
page 330 note 5 Annali dell' Inst. di Corr. Arch., li. p. 62, Pl. F.