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On two Terracotta Figurines
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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Among the recent additions to the collection of terracotta figurines in the British Museum are two which I am permitted to publish by the kindness of Mr. A. S. Murray.
The first (Fig. 1, Plate IV.) was found at Myrina in Asia Minor and represents a youthful winged male figure, leaning on a pillar and burning a butterfly over the flame of a small altar at its base. This statuette is of very good workmanship, every line has been carefully retouched, and drapery, wings and hair are so disposed as to form a background for the figure, which is entirely nude with the exception of a chlamys fastened on the right shoulder and thrown back over the left. The full soft face is framed by long curls; the wings, each feather carefully indicated, are as usual placed high on the shoulder and serve to throw the head into high relief, while the curves and pose of the body are further emphasized by folds of drapery added, for greater effect, behind the right side and thigh, after the figure was taken out of the mould, as is shown by a similar figure of very rough workmanship which has no drapery on that side and has not been retouched.
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1 Height, 8¼ inches; base, cast in one with the figure, square; vent, square; back, roughly modelled. Traces of pink colour on the chlamys, of green on the altar, and of brown on the hair. Flakes of white adhering to some parts of the figure. Terracotta Room, case 8.
2 Height, 8 inches, no traces of colour; base square, with signature ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝΙ at the back. Brit. Mus. Terracotta Room, case 23. The occurrence of the artist's signature on the rougher of two similar statuettes is noted by Pottier, MM. and Reinach, , Fouilles de Myrina i. 186, 190Google Scholar, for which see also further examples of this artist's work. Similar figure in Berlin (Antiquarium) inscribed on base ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝΟ⊂. Traces of pink on chlamys and rim of altar, and of blue on the pillar.
3 (1) Eros seated opposite winged female figure. Bronze relief from Corinth, end of 4th century (Wolters, , Arch. Zig. 1884, plate I.)Google Scholar. (2) Eros embracing female winged figure. Corinthian mirror relief, 4th cent. (Bull. de Cor. Hell. 1884).
4 See Furtwängler, , Annali 1877, 189Google Scholar.
5 Helbig, , Wandmal. Camp. 828…850, 854Google Scholar.
6 Gerhard, Ueber den Gott Eros. Plate I., II.
7 Zoega, Abh. Plate IV. 9.
8 Zoega, l.c. V. 13, 14.
9 Height, 10¾ inches; no base; vent, square; back modelled. Traces of reddish pink colour on the nude portions, of red on the lips, and of white on the cloak. Boots, white with lines of. black round the ankle; soles pink. Terracotta Room, case 18.
10 Brit. Mus. Terracotta Room, ease 20. Height, 3 inches, wreath bound with fillet on head. Boots white.
11 Pottier, and Reinach, , Fouilles de Myrina, vol. ii., plate XIGoogle Scholar.
12 Helbig, , Wandmal. Camp. 711Google Scholar.
13 Brit. Mus. Terracotta Room, easo 20.