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A New Copy of a Portrait of Demosthenes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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This marble head was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1923 from a British officer, Mr. L. T. Bower, who had purchased it in Constantinople. The vendor stated that it had come from Eski-Shehr in Asia Minor, the ancient Dorylaeum (Fig. 1).
The measurements of the head are as follows: —
Height from fracture of neck to top of head, 30 cm.
Height from chin point to top of head, 28·3 cm.
Width of face between the front of the ears, 17·3 cm.
Depth between back of head and eyebrows, 23·2 cm.
Width of neck, 13·8 cm.
Length of nose from bridge to tip (which is intact), 5·9 cm.
Width of nose at nostrils, 4·7 cm.
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References
1 Plutarch, , Dem. 31.Google Scholar
2 Bernoulli, , Griechische Ikonographie, II, p. 69.Google Scholar Certain copies are here given. Others must be added to this list (see below, p. 76).
3 Bernoulli, No. 2. It was said to have been brought to Venice by Morosini in 1687. Arndt, No. 574.
4 Bernoulli, No. 22; Michaelis, , Ancient Marbles, p. 417.Google Scholar
5 Bernoulli, No. 28; Arndt, Nos. 136–37.
6 Bernoulli, No. 29 and Pl. XII.b.
7 Bernoulli, No. 26; Berlin Catal., No.303; Arndt, No. 138.
8 Bernoulli, No. 31; Staïs, Catal., No. 327.
9 Bernoulli, p. 76, 6. Furtwängler, , Antiken Gemmen; Pl. XLIX.Google Scholar, No. 7.
10 Bernoulli, No. 21; B.M. Catal., No. 1840.
11 Bernoulli, Nos. 15–18. Only one of the four examples in the Louvre (now numbered 201) is of any real merit; it has the additional advantage of having its nose only very slightly restored.
12 Bernoulli, No. 25; Berlin Catel., No. 302; Arndt, No. 138.
13 Bernoulli, No. 6; Barracco Catalogue, 1923, No. 140.
14 Bernoulli, No. 1.
15 Bernoulli, No. 24; Michaelis, p. 230.
16 Bernoulli, No. 3.
17 I am indebted to Mr. B. Ashmole for photographs of this head and the Mond head.
18 Not in Bernoulli's list. Staïs, Catal., p. 101, No. 1761.
19 Bernoulli, No. 8; Nantes Catal., p. 73, Fig. 58, No. 9011(5469).
20 Bernoulli, No. 7; Naples Catal., p. 69, No. 893 (5467).
21 Bernoulli, No. 21; in Greek marble; B.M. Catal., No. 1841.
22 Babelon, , Catal., No. 314. Pl. XXXVII.Google Scholar Babelon's doubts as to its identity can be dismissed. Its antiquity, however, is not established, and it may possibly be J. H. Simon's ‘agate-onyx relief.’
23 They are restored with a diagonal central furrow; what is left of the original furrows does not warrant this restoration.
24 Arndt, No. 139; Paris, No. 1371.
25 Bernoulli, No. 23. M. Wyndham, catal. of the Leconfield Collection, No. 19.The head does not belong to the body: the nose is very badly restored.
26 Illustrium Imagines … quae exstant, Antwerp, 1606, No. 55.
27 Bernoulli, p. 76 (a); Sabatier, J., Description générale des médaillons contorniates p. 45Google Scholar, Pl. VI., No. 6.
28 A small bust in Athens catalogued by Staïs (p. 101, No. 1760) and by Castriotis (Catal., p. 310) as of Demosthenes, may be rejected. It has none of the essential details and is of inferior workmanship.
29 This restoration has been conclusively proved by the discovery of a small bronze replica of the statue recently discovered, and provisionally published in B.C.H. 48, p. 505. This bronze, a work of the very first rank, exhibits all the characteristics seen in the Ashmolean head, and shows the hands folded across the body; it is in the hands of a dealer. Martin Wagner first suggested this restoration in 1836.
30 No. 1462.
31 Catal. Fig. 57. It is here wrongly derived from a funeral stele.
32 Catal Acrop. Mus. II. No. 3030. Walter, O., Beschreibung der Reliefs im Kleinen Akropolismuseum, p. 32.Google Scholar Walter compares it with the Berlin relief, but wrongly, I think, dates that relief to a later period.