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the very beginning of the fifth century B.C., has long been admired for 
its vigor and grace. Whether the figure is male or female, human or 
divine, is still a matter of debate. The head is too badly weathered to 
make the decision final. The upper part of the figure of Hermes (?) 
on another fragment, which appears to come from the same relief and 
which was found near the south wall of the Akropolis in 1859,' has 
made it seem reasonable to call the charioteer a god, perhaps Apollo.” 

Fic. 63.—Charioteer Mounting a Chariot. Bas-relief 
from the Akropolis. Akropolis Museum, Athens. 
The hair of Hermes and of the charioteer is arranged in the old 
Attic krobylos fashion. This also makes it natural to interpret the 

‘This fragment contains a head whose pointed beard and petasos have been thought to indicate 
the god: Dickins, no. 1343; Collignon, I, p. 378, fig. 195; von Mach, fig. 11, opp. p. 58; Conze, 
Nuove Memorie dell’ Instituto, II, pp. 408 f. and Pl. XIII A; F. W., 96. 
*So O. Hauser, Jb., VII, 1892, pp. 54 f.; he is followed by Robinson, Cat. of Museum of Fine 
Arts, Boston, no. 33. J. Braun, Gesch. d. Kunst, 1858, Il, pp. 188 and 549 (quoted by F. W.), 
Conze, op. cit., Michaelis, Der Parthenon, 1870, p. 123, Helbig, Das homerische Epos®, 1887, 
p. 179 and n. 11, Springer-Michaelis, pp. 207-8 (and fig. 389), Dickins, and many others, also 
interpret the figure as male. 
