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A Statue of Dionysos from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene: a Recent Join

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Neil Adams
Neil Adams*
Affiliation:
Greek and Roman Department, British Museum
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Abstract

This brief report presents the reunification of a hand in the British Museum to a marble statue of Dionysos now in Edinburgh and originally discovered in the sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene by Robert Murdoch Smith and Edwin Porcher in August 1861.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 32 , 2001 , pp. 87 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2001

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1 Smith, R. M. and Porcher, E. A., A History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene, London (1864): 101, no. 36Google Scholar.

2 British Museum Archive Original Letters and Papers 70 (06-08 1861): nos. 143, page 6, and 411, page 5Google Scholar.

3 Vermeule, C. C., Greece: Crete in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Times. Sites and Sculpture, Boston (1993): 135Google Scholar.

4 Cyrene 14230-31, 14238-39, 14235. Paribeni, E., Catalogo delle Sculture di Cirene. Statue e Relievi di Carattere Religioso, Rome (1959): 113–16, nos. 317, 322, 325-27Google Scholar.

5 Letter of Murdoch Smith to Charles Newton dated 9th November 1861, British Museum Archive Original Letters and Papers 71 (September-December 1861): nos. 146, 276-77. For the first consignment, vol. 70 (June-August 1861): no. 411, page 5.

6 Letter of Murdoch Smith to Murray dated 8th March 1886 (Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Original Letters and Papers, 1886)Google Scholar; Reports of the Greek and Roman Department, 1885-86: no. 247, 8th March 1886; Minutes of the Greek and Roman Department, 1885-86: no. 223, 13th March 1886; letters of Murdoch Smith to Murray dated 22nd February, 15th of March and 8th of May 1886 in Original Letters of the Greek and Roman Department 1886-87: nos. 198-200.

7 E.g. a fragment of a female head from the cella of the temple of Apollo at Cyrene (GR 1861, 11-27.145) was recently reunited with another fragment rediscovered in 1927 which had lost its provenance (GR 1927, 2-14.1), and constitute a potential portrait head of Berenike II (publication forthcoming).