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The Sandal in the Palazzo dei Conservatori

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Guy Dickins
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In the archaic room of the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome there is a fragment of a colossal foot wearing a high sandal of the type known as Tyrrhenian. (Fig. 1, from photographs for which I have to thank the authorities of the British School at Rome.) The measurements, as given by C. L. Visconti, are:—length ·26m., breadth ·37m., indicating a total length of ·86m. It is important to notice that the fragment is not broken at the back, but is made in a separate piece. From this fact we may conclude with certainty that the foot belongs to a female figure, and protruded originally from long drapery, so that it was unnecessary to carve more than the front of the foot in a separate piece; and with great probability, since there are no dowel holes or other visible signs of attachment, that the statue to which the foot belonged was acrolithic, i.e. it had the trunk and limbs made in wood, while only head, hands, and feet were carved in marble.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 31 , November 1911 , pp. 308 - 314
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1911

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References

1 Onomasticon, vii. § 92.

2 Bull. Com. di Roma, i. (1872), p. 33.

3 Urlichs, , Cod. Urb. Rom. topgr. p. 17Google Scholar:—Regio xii. Piscina Publica, continet: aream radicariam. viam novam. Fortunam mammosam. Isidem Athenodoriam. Aedem Bonae Deae subsaxanae. Clivum Delfini. Thermas Antoninas … etc.

4 Roscher, , Lexicon, ii. p. 482Google Scholar.

5 Führer durch Rom 2 i. p. 412; N°. 614.

6 For the date of Damophon, , cf. my articles in B.S.A. xii. p. 109 and xiii. p. 356Google Scholar.

7 B.S.A. xiii. Pl. XIV. Fig. 2 and the two following illustrations are reproduced by permission from the Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. xiii.

8 B.S.A. xii. p. 362, Fig. 5.

9 B.S.A. xiii. p. 369, Fig. 10.

10 A Satyr-head in the Vatican, Amelung, Catalogue ii. 3, p. 492Google Scholar; No. 293 P; B.S.A. xi. p. 173. Colossal Head in the Capitol, Galleria, No. 49. Statue of Hygieia, formerly in Villa Borghese, Arndt and Amelung, Einzelaufnahmen No. 490.

11 N.H. xxxiv. 43.

12 Graef, (Röm. Mitt. iv. 218)Google Scholar speaks of Scopaic influence in this head. Daniel, (in J.H.S. xxiv. (1904), p. 51)Google Scholar further notices differences in the hair treatment from the Lycosura heads, and speaks of the face as fuller in style. I am wholly unable to subscribe to this view. I can find no essential difference in the hair, except that it is much better preserved, and the faulty transitions from bony to fleshy surfaces are a regular feature of Damophon's style. As positive evidence for the connexion we have the typical Damophontic eyes and mouth, unparalleled elsewhere.