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| Smooth-finished bottom surface preserved; broken at top and back; muzzle chipped.
Part of the (head and) neck and forequarters of a bull, apparently brought down by an animal (lion), part of whose claws ... Late Archaic or early Classical period ... Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fig. 377. |
| Broken above; somewhat chipped; back flat.
Against a roughly semicircular object, like an altar or column, a small human figure in high relief. He is draped with long tunic and a cloak fastened across ... 27 May 1939 ... The hole very roughly blocked out.
Sculptors' model?
Soft yellow poros. |
| Badly damaged draped figure seated on a throne (Kybele? Philosopher ?). The throne is broken at top, left side and front of bottom. The head, shoulders, arms (except left forearm) and legs from the knees ... 11 February 1937 ... Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fig. 333 (fig. 350 in forth edition 1970), portrait statue in the British Museum, and fig. 445 (fig. 356 in forth edition 1970), statue signed by Zeuxis in the Metropolitan Museum. |
| Intact except for end of nose, chips from ears and upper eyelids, chips from just above left ear. Left side stained brown.
Made to be set into a shaft; the bottom is approximately the frustrum of a cone ... 2nd c. A.D ... "Hertz Head" in Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fig. 639 (p. 187 and figs. 684-685 in fourth edition 1970); Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1936-1937), Sculturaedel Magazzino del Museo Vaticano, no, 47, pl. |
| About two-thirds of body preserved; broken at bottom, and both arms missing. The right arm broken off just below the shoulder, the left ends in a smooth-cut surface just above the elbow, with a hole for ... 28 April 1947 ... Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 105, fig. 323 (p. 71 and fig. 340 in Fourth Edition, 1970); note that that is less than life-size. |
| A herm used as support for the left arm of la large statue carrying a child.
Upper half of the child is missing as well as the entire statue, whose left arm rests on the head of the herm. The base of ... 2nd c. A.D ... Cf. the description of the Herm of Alkamenes in Richter (1929) , Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 236, fig. 628 (p. 182, fig. 673 in the 4th edition 1970): "The style of the herm is evidently archaistic, the formal treatment of the hair and beard being conditioned by its architectonic character, for the rendering of the eyes places it in the second half of the fifth century." |
| A life-size statue, the head and right arm are missing; the upper front part of the body has been cut away; the draped left arm is preserved to the lower forearm, which was separately inserted, and part ... 6 June 1931 ... For the style and execution of the drapery cf. the sculpture from the Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros, probably by Timotheos, Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, figs. 710-719 (figs. 757-766 in forth edition 1970).
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| Several pieces, including chunks from sides and rim, missing. Flat bottom; straight sides; flat-topped projecting rim.
Orange-buff clay. Light slip. Surface much worn.
On side wall, just below rim, a ... 9-12 February 1937 ... Also Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 236, fig. 631. |
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