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Sculpture and Epigraphy, 1886–1887

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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There are two directions in which there has been much good work to report from Greece during the last few months; the discovery of new antiquities, and the arrangement and exhibition in accessible places of those which were known before, the whole now profiting by the able direction of M. Cavvadias. All students of archaeology will be glad to hear that the excellent principle has been adopted of bringing together all the most important sculptures now on Greek soil in the new Central Museum at Athens: the only considerable exception will be in the case of the Olympian discoveries, for which a fine Museum has been built upon the spot. It is thus possible now for archaeological travellers to study the art treasures found upon any site in Greece at their leisure, while living comfortably at Athens: they will then be free, when travelling in other districts, to devote their attention to those questions of architecture and topography that can only be studied upon the sites themselves. In accordance with this principle, many sculptures from various sites have been brought to the Athenian Central Museum; and the arrangement of that Museum is now rapidly progressing. Among well-known works now exhibited there may be mentioned the heads of two heroes and the boar from the pediments of the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, which we know to have been designed by Scopas; the archaic statues from Delos, including that dedicated by Nicandra, and the pedestal of Archermos, with the winged figure that high authorities now refuse to associate with it; and the statues found in the Greek excavations at Epidaurus before 1884, notably the pedimental figures of mounted Amazons, &c.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1887

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