HEAD OF A STATUE OF A BOY FROM SPARTA. 305 
in the British Museum, similar to that of the Westmacott Athlete 
(Pl. 19), seems to be a contemporary replica of an original of the fifth 
century B.C. Such examples (and many more could be cited) show 
the difference between contemporary ‘doubles’? and the later copies 
of Greek masterpieces. The former are Greek originals in a very 
true sense, made, as we assume the Agias was, under the direct super- 
vision of noted sculptors. In this sense only the Delphian statue 
should be called a copy. 
HEAD OF A STATUE OF A BOY FROM SPARTA, AND THE 
ART OF SKOPAS. 
We shall next discuss the beautiful Pentelic marble head of a boy, 
with a lion’s scalp drawn over the top so that the muzzle comes down 
over the forehead, which is said to have been discovered near the 
Akropolis at Sparta in 1908 (Fig. 
72). This head was for a time 
in the University Museum, Phil- 
adelphia, and later was exhibited 
at the Boston Museum of Fine 
Arts. At last accounts it was in 
private possession in Philadel- 
phia. It has been published as 
the head of a youthful Herakles 
by my colleague, Professor W.N. 
Bates, in the American Journal 
of Archeology.2 Of its style he 
says: “The points of resem- 
blance which the Philadelphia 
Heracles bears to the heads from 
the Tegean pediments are so 
many and so striking that they 
must all be traced back to the 
same sculptor; and that he was_ Fic. 72.— Marble Head of a Boy, found 
Skopasthere can be little doubt.” . near the Akropolis, Sparta. In 
ee ondludes that it is Private Possession in Philadelphia, 
ce U. st A. 
probably a very good copy of a 
lost work of Skopas.’’ A little later, Dr. L. D. Caskey, of the 
Museum in Boston, found these resemblances hardly close enough, 
in view of the influence of Skopas on later Greek sculpture, to justify 
so definite an attribution.* He found them confined to the upper part 
of the face, while he believed that the lower portion resembled heads 
which could be assigned to Praxiteles or his influence, and conse- 

1]. H. S., XXIX, 1909, pp. 151-2, fig. 1 a and b (F. H. Marshall). 
2X III, 1909, pp. 151-7, with Pl. IV and figs. 1-3 (A head of Heracles in the style of Scopas.) 
3Jbid.,pp. 156 and 157. 4Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, VII, no. 46 (Aug., 1910), p. 26. 
