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Some Bronzes recently acquired for the Ashmolean Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

P. Gardner
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In 1897 Professor Furtwängler, whose loss we feel more and more, published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Munich certain early bronzes from various parts of Greece and Italy, and belonging to various Museums. He then observed how great is the importance of these bronze statuettes of good Greek work, seeing that larger bronze statues have almost wholly disappeared, and the masterpieces of the great bronze-casters survive only in marble copies of the Roman age. With this suggestive observation I fully concur.

The excavations of recent years have brought to light a considerable number of important Greek bronze statuettes, which can be in some measure dated by the circumstances of finding, as well as by style. Many of these are in the National Museum at Athens, published by De Ridder. A certain number, as is natural in the case of such small and valuable objects, have been exported from Greece and Italy and purchased by great Museums or by private collectors. Unfortunately in regard to many of these the place and circumstances of finding must always be doubtful, as it is not in the interest of the seller that the truth should be known.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 1910, pp. 226 - 235
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1910

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References

1 For the whole class see especially De Ridder's, Catalogues of the bronzes from the Aeropolis and in the Museum of the Archaeological Society, and his paper in Bull. Corr. Hellén. 1900, p. 1Google Scholar: Furtwängler's papers of 1897 and 1899 in the Transactions of the Academy of Munich: and the British Museum Catalogue of Bronzes.

2 Now in the Louvre, . Ann. d. Inst. 1880 Tav. d'agg. TGoogle Scholar; cf. Milchhoefer, , Anfänge der Kunst, p. 169Google Scholar.

3 To which my attention was called by Mr. E. T. Leeds.

4 iv. 105.

5 Roscher, , Lexikon, p. 2200Google Scholar.

6 Auserl. Vasenb. Pl. CI.

7 Olympia, Bronzes, Pl. XI; cf. p. 108.

8 E.g. Benndorf, Griech. u. Sicil. Vasenb. Pl. LIV.

9 vii. 27, 2.

10 Ephem. Arch. 1887, Pl. VIII.

11 Mr. Evans suggests that we may see in this pattern a survival of the early Cretan mitra.

12 Arch. Zeit. 1883, Pl. I. Other warriors of the same class Bull. Corr. Hell. xi. Pl. IX.; Athen. Mittheil, iii. 1.

13 All except the ⊙ and this letter is so indistinct that its form cannot be clearly made out.

14 Compare Athen. Mittheil. 1909, p. 356.

15 B.C.H. xi. 358.

16 See a paper by Nogara and Mariani in Ausonia for 1909.

17 This appears to be the true spelling of the name rather than Theagenes., See Berlin Philol. Wochenschr. 1909, p. 252Google Scholar.

18 Les Apollons archaïques, p. 17.

19 See references in Daremberg and Saglio s.v. Kottabos.

20 Pp. xiv, 284, Pl. V.

21 Cf. Thraemer, in Roscher's, Lexikon i. pp. 1090–1122Google Scholar; Farnell, , Cults of the Greek States, v. pp. 263Google Scholar, etc.

22 Olympia, Bronzes, p. 128.