139.Cast of a metope from the third temple at Selinus. A draped male figure, apparently Dionysos, is engaged in combat with an armed giant, who has sunk on his right knee.—Presented by S. Angell, Esq.
Angell and Evans, pl. 3; Benndorf, p. 52, pl. 6; Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., I., p. 158, fig. 30a; Wolters, No. 152.
SCULPTURES AND CASTS FROM ATHENS AND ATTICA.
150.Female (?) head. The hair, which is bound by a narrow band, falls in large waves on each side of the forehead to the ears, and thence to the shoulders. At the back, the hair is rendered by conventional undulations, parallel to the band.—Athens (?). Elgin Coll.
Marble; height, 8½ inches. Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 40, fig. 4; Synopsis, No. 251 (115); Ellis, Elgin Marbles, II., p. 119; cf. Welcker, Alte Denkmaeler, I., p. 399.
151.Cast of a torso of a standing female figure, wearing a chiton of fine texture, and a mantle. The chiton is drawn over the girdle, and has a short diploïdion. The mantle is worn over the shoulders. The hair falls in three tresses in front of each shoulder, and in overlapping layers, down the back. The head, forearms and legs from the knees are wanting. The original, of marble, is at Athens.
Height, 1 foot 6 inches. Le Bas, Monuments Figurés, pl. 2, fig. 2; Sybel, No. 5007; Wolters, No. 112. Further literature is cited by Wolters.
152.Torso of a standing female figure wearing an under-chiton of fine texture, and an over-chiton with diploïdion which is worn so as to leave the left shoulder bare. The figure appears to have held a vessel in her lap, with both hands. The hair falls down the back, the locks terminating below the shoulders. The head and arms are wanting.—Athens (?). Elgin Coll.
Marble; height, 2 feet 10 inches. Clarac, V., pl. 821a, fig. 2069 b, c.