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A New Replica of the Choiseul-Gouffier Type

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

The central photograph shewn on p. 279 is of a fragment now in the courtyard of the Terme Museum in Rome, but unpublished as yet in the catalogue. The material is a white coarse-grained marble probably of Greek origin, and the fragment represents the right leg (Standbein) of a standing male figure, and the trunk of a tree which supports it. Against the trunk, and at the side of the leg, is a quiver with conical lid, slung by a strap over a projecting branch. The foot is missing from the centre of the ankle-bone, and the upper line of breakage runs from the hip-bone inwards and downwards to the junction of the legs. From this point to the ankle the fragment measures 67½ centimetres, so that it is approximately life-size. There is a puntello in the middle of the thigh on the outside.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1906

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References

1 Mariani, and Vaglieri, , Guida 3, p. 37Google Scholar, No. 408. The head was removed from the Magazines of Sta Francesca Romana.

2 Dr.Waldstein's, view that the statue is an athletic portrait (J.H.S. vol. i. p. 168Google Scholar) has been answered by Furtwängler, (Reseller's, Lexicon, i. p. 455)Google Scholar, Smith, A. H. (B.M. Cat. of Sculpture, vol. i. p. 85Google Scholar, No. 209), Schreiber, (Ath. Mitth. ix. p. 248)Google Scholar, and others, who maintain that it is a statue of Apollo.