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mouth, high ears, and almond eyes recall many archaic works, but 
especially the Apollo of Tenea (Pl. 8A). The garland of oak leaves 
above the frisure of the forehead may suggest a victor,! or perhaps a 
priest or assistant on some religious embassy.2. The turning of the 
neck—as in the ephebe statue of the Akropolis (Fig. 17)—shows a break 
at this early time with archaism. Another work illustrating Ionism is 
the fragment of a grave-stele found near the Dipylon gate in 1873 and 
dating from the second half of the sixth century B.C.’ It represents 
the head of an athlete in profile, the youth holding a diskos in his left 
hand, so placed that his head is projected upon it in relief as on a nim- 
bus. The top of the head is broken off, but we see the usual archaic 
features in the face—the almond-shaped eye (in profile), big nese with 
knob-like nostrils, thick lips with the archaic smile, retreating chin and 
forehead, and high ear with a huge lobe. The neck and chin, however, 
are full of grace and strength, as is also the slender thumb outlined 
against the diskos. As the stele broadens downward,‘ the figure ap- 
pears to have been represented with the feet apart, and so may have 
represented a palestra diskobolos on parade,® and is, therefore, our 
earliest representation of such an athlete. A similar dress-parade pose 
is seen on the stele of Aristion in the National Museum at Athens, the 
work of the sculptor Aristokles, which represents a warrior with a 
spear in the left hand. Another torso of an ephebe in the Akropolis 
Museum represents Ionic work from Paros.? Another head, the so- 
called Rayet head in the Jakobsen collection in Copenhagen, one of 
the most remarkable specimens of Greek archaic art® (Fig. 22), some- 
1So0 Richardson, p. 83, and others. 
2So Bulle; he dates it in the first half of the sixth century B. C., doubtless a little too early. 
3It is now in the National Museum at Athens: Kabbadias, no. 38; Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, 
p.17; Arch. Eph., 1874, p. 484 and Pl. 71,1, a (Koumanoudis); Sybel, Kat. d. Skulpt. zu Athen, 
1881, no. 2904; von Mach, 351; Overbeck, I, p. 202, fig. 46; Collignon, I, p. 385, fig. 200; 
F. W., 99; Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs, 1, 1890, Pl. IV, pp. 5-6; Kirchhoff and Curtius, 
Philolog. u. histor. Abh. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. xu Berlin, 1873, pp. 156 f. (and two illustrations, 
one of a second fragment); Perrot-Chipiez, VIII, p. 664, fig. 342. 
4The breadth of 14 inches at top would become 30 inches at bottom. A second fragment, 
apparently belonging to the first, contains a part of the leg: Arch. Eph., 1874, Pl. 71, T, b. 
5The same motive occurs on vases: ¢. g., Gerhard, I, Pl. XXII, and IV, Pl. CCLXXII. 
®This very low relief is the most perfect of the older Attic grave-stela, and dates from the 
second half of the sixth century B. C.: Kabbadias, no. 29; Stais, Martres et Bronzes, p. 15 and 
fig. (2.40 m. high); Sybel, of. cit., no. 3361; Overbeck, I, p. 200, fig. 45; Conze, Die attischen 
Grabreliefs, I, Pl. II, 1, p. 4; B. B., no. 41 A; Baum., I, p. 341, fig. 358; Kekule, Die ant. Bildw. 
im Theseion, no. 363; Springer-Michaelis, p. 195, fig. 371; F. W., no. 101. Overbeck dates it 
at the beginning of the fifth century B. C.; Richardson, p. 91 and fig. 43, about 525 B.C. 
For a duplicate stele from Ikaria, see 4. J. A., V, 1889, Pl. I and pp. 9 f. (Buck); Conze, op. 
sg Uae ed ea Be 
7Dickins, no. 692 and fig.; mentioned by Furtwaengler, 4. M., V, 1880, pp. 25 and 32; 
discussed by R. Delbrueck, ibid., X XV, 1900, pp. 373 f., Pls. XV, XVI (bottom). 
8La Glypt. Ny-Carlsberg, 1896, Pls. 1, 2 (and text by Arndt); Reinach, Tétes, Pls. 1, 2; 
Rayet, Mon. gr., VI, 1877 (publ. in vol. I, 1882), Pl. 1; id., Et. d’archéol. et d’art, pp. 1-8 and 
Pl. I; Collignon, I, pp. 361, fig. 183; B. B., no. 116; Bulle, 197; Perrot-Chipiez, VIII, p. 643, 
ne. 329. 
