A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Much broken: there is a profiled border above. On 1. are visible only part of the face, the L shoulder and arm which holds a sceptre of a seated bearded male figure. Facing it on r. clad in a himation stands a bearded male figure stretching out both hands towards it: in 1. is a (pomegranate V) flower. Behind this appears, also facing to 1., the head and the upper part of the body of a draped female figure. Bad and flat late work. Cf. 18. 17. Semicircular relief. Bluish marble. H.-26, Di.-37. D-M. 261. Furtwangler, Silzungsb. d. k. bay. Akad. 1899, ii. 4, p. 599. E-V. 1314. Found at Sazanu on the 1. bank of the Eurotas, one hour E. of Sparta. On a goat running r. rides Aphrodite Pandemos. She is clad in a long chiton, and a himation which covers her legs and floats over her head behind. Her 1. hand is round the goat's neck, and her r. hand holds the himation behind her head. Also sporting with the ends of the himation are two winged Erotes, one over the goat's head, the other over its hind legs. Before the goat runs a dog: and in front is a ladder. On the forehead of Aphrodite a crescent is visible. Ordinary work of the early imperial period. The ladder is probably apotropaic, though it may possibly have had some connexion with Aphrodite. It was certainly, however, used as an evil eye charm: v. Jahn, Sachsische Berichte, 1855, pi. IV, 15, V, 3, p. 41, note 44; Elworthy, Evil Eye, p. 371 seqq., figs. 181-183. 18. Votive relief (P). Bluish marble. H.-34, B.-50. D-M. 260. Arch. Zeii. 1883, p. 227, pi. XIII, 2; Roscher, i. 2568. Fig. 29. Found according to Stamatakes in a later wall outside the E. wall of the Acropolis. There is a profiled border all round. On 1. is seated to r. on a throne with a lion leg-shaped foot a male figure. He wears a...