THE OLYMPIA HEAD AND THAT OF THE AGIAS. 295 
furnish examples of them—but it is only with Lysippos and after him 
that we see a conscious intention of having the proportions thus re- 
duced. Now the head from Olympia is also less than life-size,! but as 
the head alone is preserved, we can only assume that the proportions 
it bore to the body were similar to those we see in the statue of Agias. 
The conformation of the crania of both is, as in Attic works, round, with 
small, only slightly projecting occiputs, as opposed to the squareness of 
Polykleitan heads, which are longer from front to back and flatter on 
top—showing how Lysippos in this respect departed from the creator 
of the Doryphoros. ‘This cranial conformation is almost identical in the 
two heads, as is clearly shown in Fig. 70, where one is drawn in profile 
over the other. 
b 
Fic. 70.— Profile Drawings of the Heads of the Agias 
and the Philandridas. 

The head of the Agias is turned slightly upward and to the left. 
Treu found traces of the use of a file on the back of the neck of the head 
from Olympia, which show from their position, what also was clear 
from the muscles of the throat, that this head also was inclined some- 
what to the left and upward, possibly more than that of the gras. 
The outlines of the face—lean and bony in both—are oval, in the head 
from Olympia somewhat broader, rounder, and fleshier toward the chin. 
In both the forehead is remarkably low, with a low depression or crease 
in the middle, and with a prominently projecting superciliary arcade, 
which breaks the continuous line from forehead to nose very percep- 
tibly. This line is concave above and below, but convex at the projec- 
tion itself, though this is less prominent in the dgias. The powerful 
framing of the eyes, which are deep-set and thrown into heavy shadows 
by the projecting bony structure of the brows and the overhanging 
masses of flesh, the eyeballs slightly raised and peering eagerly into the 
far distance, the slight upward inclination of the head, and the 
prominent forehead drawn together, all combine to give both heads 
1Treu, Bildw. v. Ol., p. 208, gives these measurements: height with neck, 0.270 meter; height 
of head alone, 0.215 meter; breadth of face, 0.127 meter; height of face, 0.155 meter. 
