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Ὁ ἈΦ’ ἙΣΤΙΑΣ. Two Statues of a Boy Celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Katharine Esdaile
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When the great tunnel under the Quirinal was being constructed many fragments of statues and inscriptions came to light, most of which are at present stored in the Magazzino Archeologico. Among the finest is the statue of a boy (Pl. I. a) in the Fourth Room, found during the excavations of 1899–1900, and published in the Bullettino Comunale for 1901, Pl. X., where it is described as probably a Pasitelean imitation of the early Peloponnesian School of the fifth century B.C., unlike any known type, but suggestive on the one hand, from the myrtle wreath on the support, of an Eros or Thanatos, on the other, from its grave and serious aspect, of a camillus. M. Reinach in a note in vol. iii. of his Recueil des Statues Antiques p. 177) also regards it as archaistic; Dr. Amelung as a copy of a bronze original produced somewhat later than the Hestia Giustiniani.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1909 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1909

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References

1 Schol. Aristoph, . ad Pac. 374Google Scholar. 5; ad Acharn. 747.

2 The fillet is not the flat aud broader athletic band, but narrow, straight, and thickish. The Louvre head has been published independently by Furtwängler (M. W. Fig. 132) and Reinach (Têtes Antiques, Pls. XXIX, and XXX.). Both assign it to the years 460–450 B.C. The complete statue seems to me to point to the earlier date.

3 The boy is made to look older, and the curls in front of the ears have been shortened and turned into loose locks.

4 Coinage of Eleusis, 350–320 B.C. (Cat., B. M.Attica, Pl. XX. 1–4Google Scholar). Eleusiniaii vase at St. Petersburg, (Compte Rendu, 1859, Pl. II.)Google Scholar, etc.

5 Antiquities of Attica, Pl. VII.

6 Cf. Schol. Aristoph, . ad Eq. 408Google Scholar.

7 Lenormant, (Recherches archéologiques à Eleusis, p. 204Google Scholar) enumerates thirteen; to which should be added Eph. Arch. 1894, p. 176.

8 The inscriptions mentioning girls thus far discovered are of late date.