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Two Reliefs in the Ashmolean Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

C. A. Hutton
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Among the recent acquisitions of the Ashmolean Museum are the two reliefs which form the subject of the present paper, and which I am permitted to publish by the courtesy of the Keeper, Mr. E. T. Leeds. The Museum already possessed a fragment of a Nymph relief of the ordinary type (three draped female figures moving in procession within a grotto (Chandler, Pars I, Tab. L. No. CXXIV = Michaelis, Anc. Marb., No. 133) so that the two new reliefs materially enrich that group in the Collection.

I. Dance of Pan and Nymphs (Pl. XIVa).—Pan occupies the centre of the composition; he moves quickly to his left, leading three female figures in a dance round an altar-shaped stone. He is dressed in a panther skin, which covers his bent right arm; a long narrow mantle is thrown over his left shoulder, one end of which floats behind him, the other is twisted round his left arm, in which he holds a pedum; his head is turned back over his right shoulder towards the nymph who follows him (No. 1). His figure is in high relief (3 cmm.), his head, the floating ends of his scarf and his legs so much undercut as almost to seem detached from the background. The body of the first nymph is also in high relief (2½ cmm.), and is twisted round to present a three-quarters view; her right arm is thrown back to grasp ah end of her drapery, her left is raised to her shoulder.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , 1929, pp. 240 - 245
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1929

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1 Length, ·40 m.; breadth, ·24 m.; thickness (at bottom) ·6 m., at top, ·4 m. The surface is much stained with rusty brown, but recent fractures show that the material is a coarse-grained, highly crystallised white marble. The relief is broken away at the top right-hand corner and at both the lower corners. It is reputed to have come from Smyrna. The photographs of both reliefs are by Mr. Chaundy, photographer to the Museum.

2 Archaistische Kunst in Griechenland und Rom, pp. 30–42, Pls. XIV, XV, XVI. 1.

3 No. 962 (=Schmidt, op. cit. Pl. XIV (2)).

4 Ruesch, Guida, No. 282(=Schmidt, op. cit. XV. (1)).Neo-Attic work.

5 Cat. of Sculpture, No. 1344 (= Schmidt, Pl. XV (2)).

6 Schmidt, Pl. XV (3).

7 Ibid. Pl. XVI (1).

8 Mendel, Cat. II. No. 463 (= Schmidt, Pl. XIV (1)).

9 Op. cit. p. 34 and note 11. The head of Pan in the British Museum relief is almost entirely destroyed, but such traces as remain do not suggest a Zeus-Ammon type.

10 Greatest width 37 cmm.; height on r. side, 35 cmm.; thickness 6 to 9 cmm. Fine close-grained island (?) marble. From the Warren Collection. (Sale catalogue No. 93.) Provenance unrecorded. I am indebted to Mr. D. B. Harden for kind help in obtaining an additional squeeze.

11 Letters 8 mm. high with apices.

12 I.G. xii. 1; 7018, 6962.

13 Op. cit., xii. 1. 762B17, 8285.

14 For a full statement of the evidence see van Gelder, H., Geschichte der alten Rhodier, pp. 237 ff.Google Scholar

15 Inscrr. in British Museum, 351 (= I.G. xii. 1, 694).

16 I.G. xii. 1, 761, 694 (Kameiros); 677 (Ialysos).

17 Inscrr. Brit. Mus. 357 (= I.G. xii. 1, 761).

18 I.G. xii. 1, 762 (Ialysos).

19 Ibid., 677; 762B (Lindos).

20 Ibid. 828; he held previously the priesthoods of Athena Lindia, Zeus Polieus and Artemis Kekoia.

21 Ibid. 696.

22 Inscrr. Brit. Mus. 353 (=I.G. xii. 1, 701).

23 Blinkenberg, , Die Lindsche Tempelchronik, A 1. 25, B.C. 99.Google Scholar

24 Inscrr. Brit. Mus. 352 (=I.G. xii. 1, 695).

25 I.G. xii. 1, 832; ibid. 88 (= I.B.M. 345).

26 I.G. xii. 1, 46,1. 445 (= S.G.D.I., 3791).

27 Cf. Indices to I.G. xii. 1; Maiuri, Nuova Silloge Epigraphica di Rodi e Cos; van Gelder, op. cit.