555. Heads of Pelops and Hippodamia? Heroic heads of colossal male and female figures, turned to the right. The female head is in low relief, and wears a diadem, and a veil falling over the back of the head. Compare the heads in a terracotta relief in the British Museum (Ancient Terracottas in B. M., pl. 19, No. 34). The male head is almost worked in the round and wears a close-fitting helmet. Some drapery passes over the left shoulder. These two heads have long been called Pelops and Hippodamia, and it is very likely that the figures belonged to a chariot group. But they may well be the somewhat idea consort. Found in the sea near Girgenti (Agrigentum).—Townley Coll.
Greek marble, perhaps Parian; height, 1 foot 5¼ inches; width, 1 foot 4 inches. Mus. Marbles, X., pl. 32; Ellis, Townley Gallery, II., p. 153.
556. Head of Odysseus? Male head, with curling hair and short beard, wearing a peaked cap (pileus). The surface is much decayed, and most of the chin and mouth is broken away. This head may be from a sepulchral monument.—Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot ½ inch. Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 40, fig. 3; Ellis, Elgin Marbles, II., p. 119.
557. Fragment from the back of a head. The hair is drawn to a knot at the back of the head, and is confined by two bands, crossing one another.
Pentelic marble; height, 10½ inches.
558. Head of a maiden, wearing a closely-fitting cap. The style is characteristic of the fifth century.—Athens? Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 9 inches. Synopsis, No. 239 (122).
559. Heroic head of a youth, inclined slightly to his left. The hair is very slightly indicated, and the back of the head is worked away, as if for a bronze helmet.—Obtained in Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in 1803, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen in 1861.