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Two Heads related to the Choiseul-Gouffier Type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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I. In spite of much discussion, the question of Apollo versus Athlete in this famous group of monuments remains undecided. Though there is considerable difference in detail, the rendering of the hair as a purely athletic coiffure is common to all the replicas, but an additional feature in an unpublished head in the British Museum seems to have escaped notice, and the light it throws on the subject is such as perhaps to justify a fresh consideration of the evidence.
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1 The argument for. the Apollo attribution, based on the curls round the face, falls to the ground in view of the coiffure of the accumulating ephebe heads of this and a slightly earlier period.
2 I have to thank the late Mr. A. S. Murray for permission to publish this interesting head, and to reproduce on a larger scale than heretofore that which follows.
3 Those on the right side are missing, but their position is clearly shown by the lines of breakage.
4 The head has suffered considerably, the nose being completely gone (an old restoration is replaced by a cast of that of the Choiseul-Gouffier athlete) and the chin broken away.
5 Overbeck, , Apollon, p. 109Google Scholar, points out the untrustworthy character of this replica.
6 Olympia, Bildw. p. 224. Taf. lvii. 3–5.
6a Handbook, i. p. 235.
7 Overbeck, , S.Q. 508–526Google Scholar.
8 id. 531.
9 Apud Roscher, , Lexikon, p. 456Google Scholar.
9a Cf. the famous ephebe head from the Akropolis for the arrangement over the fillet and the knot behind.
10 A round hole just above the plaits would seem to shew that the Museum head was supported from behind. The statue therefore may have been placed in a niche.
11 An inferior replica in Munich, . Meisterwerke, p. 115Google Scholar.
12 Strena Helbigiana, p. 293.
13 Cat., B. M.Troas, etc. Pl. XXXII. 1Google Scholar.
13a In the B.M. head the nose is a restoration.
14 Op. cit. Introd. p. lxv.; text, p. 158.
15 Masterpieces, p. 108 and Pl. VI. 14.
16 Notably in the plastic treatment of the hair.
17 Works of his stood in Delphi, Olympia, and Thebes.
18 Replicas of the Choiseul-Gonffier type have been found in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
19 Paus. v. 25.
20 Strabo, vii. 319.
21 Mrs. Strong's position (Strava, loc. cit.) that both are Apollos seems hardly tenable. The difference in date is, as she allows, not great, and the distinction of type is, to my mind, fundamental.