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The Holkham Head.—A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Charles Waldstein
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In the last number of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (vol. xxxiv. p. 122) Mr. Guy Dickins begins his article on the Holkham Head and the Parthenon Pediment by saying that, before accepting my own arguments as contained in my article (J.H.S. vol. xxxiii, p. 276), ‘we have the right to demand from him [myself] some evidence on the following points:—

(1) That there is reason to connect the head with Athens and the Acropolis,

(2) That the material is identical with the other pediment marbles,

(3) That the style is Pheidian, or at any rate fifth-century Attic, and

(4) That it is an architectural and not an independent piece of sculpture.'

I will not needlessly occupy space by repeating what I have already written fully in my article, and I will merely take Mr. Dickins's four objections seriatim and deal with them as concisely as possible; but I must ask my readers, after they have read Mr. Dickins's exposition of his views, again to read my article carefully in order to appreciate the relative value of the evidence furnished.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 34 , November 1914 , pp. 312 - 320
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1914

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References

1 See American Journal of Archaeology, 1889, Pl. II.

2 I have endeavoured to find reproductions of the head thus described by Mr. Dickins without further reference. I seem to remember it as part of a relief; but without citation it is difficult to remember the many thousands of works in European museums.

3 Helbig, Führer, etc., Nos. 185 and 179; Vatican Catalogue, ii. p. 418, n. 253, T. 46., and ii. p. 386 n. 228, T. 43; Löwy, , Griech. Kunst, p. 86Google Scholar, T. 101. The best illustrations are Brann-Bruekmann, Denkmäler, Nos. 137 and 258.