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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. |
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