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tested by the bronze statue of the god fashioned by the elder Kanachos 
of Sikyon for Branchidai, the pose of which is known from several 
statuettes and from a long series of Milesian coins.!_ For conservative 
reasons this favorite pose was kept for cult statues even into the fourth 
century B.C., as we learn from representations on coins of the golden 
statue of the god set up in the inmost shrine of the temple at Delphi.? 
But that many of the earlier examples of the “Apollo” series do repre- 
sent the god, should not be denied. Weagreewith Homolle that the old 
appellation “Apollo,” after having received too much favor, has now 
by reaction become censured too severely, and in general should still 
be applied to those statues of the series which have been discovered in 
or near sanctuaries of the god, and in the absence of any other indica- 
tion to the contrary, also to those which stand upon bases inscribed 
with dedications to him.’ Such a statue was found on the island of 
Thasos at the bottom of the cella of the temple of Apollo at Alki and is 
now in Constantinople.* The colossal statue found on the island of 
Delos just south of the temple of Apollo,® and the huge torso discovered 
in Megara® may be referred to the god, for their size favors an ascription 
to a deity rather than to mortals. And many other examples of the type 
found in sanctuaries may very well represent Apollo and other gods.’ 
That several of the series were also funerary in character is abund- 
antly proved by the fact that they were discovered in the neighborhood 
of tombs. Thus the Apollo of Tenea (Pl. 8A) decorated a tomb in the 
1This image, known as the Philesian Apollo, already discussed on pp. 118f.,is described by Pliny, 
H.H.,XXXIV,75. Itwas made between 494 and 479 B. C.: see Frazer, IV, pp. 429-30. Itis copied 
on Milesian coins, which represent the god nude, holding a stag in the right hand and a bow in the 
left: see Overbeck, Griech. Mythol., III, Apollon, Muenztafel I, 22 f. P., LX, 10. 2, mentions a 
cedar replica of the statue in Thebes. In the British Museum is a bronze, the so-called 
Payne Knight statuette, a copy of the one on the coins; it is reproduced by Frazer, /. c., p. 430, 
fig. 45 (=B. M. Bronzes, no. 209); Frazer mentions as other copies a statuette in Berlin, 
described in 4. Z., XX XVII, 1879, pp. 84-91, and one from the Ptoian sanctuary, described in 
B.C. H., X, 1886, pp. 190-6, and Pl. IX. On Milesian reliefs, see one published by Kekulé von 
Stradonitz, Ueber d. Apoll. des Kanachos, Sitzb. Berl. Akad. d. Wiss., 1904, I, fig. on p. 787, and 
p. 797, and another by Th. Wiegand, Siebenter vorlaeufiger Bericht ueber Ausgrabungen in 
Milet und Didyma (4bh. Berl. Akad. d. Wiss., Philosoph.-histor. Cl., 1911), p. 21. 
*Mentioned by P., X, 24. 5, and Philochoros, in F. H.G., I, fragm. 22 on p. 387. Imperial Del- 
phic coins from the time of Hadrian on represent the god nude with outstretched arms; such 
coin-types may be copies of this statue; cf. Frazer, V, p. 352. 
3See B. C. H., XII, 1888, p. 468. 
4In the Ottoman Museum, Invent. no. 374; Reinach, Rép., II, 1, 78, 2. It is described by 
Mendel, in B. C. H., XXVI, 1902, pp. 467 f.; cf. Deonna, Les Apollons archaiques, p. 226, no. 127. 
*See Deonna, pp. 191 f:, no. 81 and figs. 84-90; cf. Annali, XXXVI, 1864, p. 253 (Michaelis). 
8Jbid., pp. 185 f., no. 77 and fig. 82. 
7E. g., the two cclossal statues from Cape Sounion discovered by Stais in 1906 in front of the 
ruins of the temple of Poseidon, and now in Athens, possibly meant for the Dioskouroi: see 
Deonna, pp. 135-8, nos. 7-8 and figs. 14-17; for one, see 4. M., XXXI, 1906, pp. 363-4; Deonna, 
no. 7, pp. 135 and 347; Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, no. 2720, pp. 6-7 and fig.; Gardner, Hbk., p. 
197, fig. 40; it is 3.05 meters high (Stais); two from Delphi, called either Kleobis and Biton, or 
the Dioskouroi by Homolle, B. C. H., XXIV, 1900, pp. 445 (=B) and 446 (=A), and 450 f.; 
Homolle here has the letters changed; his B= Fouilles de Delphes, IV, 1 (=our A, =PI. 8B); see 
Deonna, pp. 176-8, nos. 65-6, figs. 66-9; see list of statues from sanctuaries of Apollo and other 
gods, ibid., pp. 18-19. 
