Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (1899) (14783721952)

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Title: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944
Subjects: Bronzes -- Catalogs Art, Ancient
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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13 = No. S34.
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Fig. j4= No. S54^ ARCHAIC ETRUSCAN BRONZES. 79 555. Hermes Criophoros, probably from the top of a cista or lebes. He stands Plate XIII.with 1. leg advanced, and is nude and slightly bearded, with a row of formal curls over the forehead ; with r. hand he holds the fore-legs, with 1. the hind-legs, of a ram which he carries on his shoulders. The type is perhaps derivedfrom Onatas. Ht. 4; in. Civita Castellana, 1893. Murray, Greek Bronzes, p. 26. A series of similarfigures is given in Man. dell Inst. ix. pi. 6. For the subject generally see Veyries, Sur lesCriophores Grecs ; Ann. dell Inst., 1879, P- H3 ff- ; Roscher, Lexikon, i. p. 2394 ff. ; Furt-waengler. Coll. Sabouroff, ii. pi. 146. Veyries regards these figures as mortals with victims forsacrifice ; see Preller, Gr. Mythol* i. p. 420, note 4. 556. Man Reclining, probably from the top of a cista. He reclines on1. side, with 1. arm on a cushion (perhaps an inflated askos), and 1. handextended, holding out a patera in r. hand ; he has