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Title: Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Archaeological Institute of America American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Subjects: Classical antiquities -- Periodicals Archaeology -- Periodicals Greece -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: Boston : Cupples, Upham and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he EastFrieze of the Parthenon, the slab to which it belongs now being amongthe Elgin marbles in the British jMnseum (Fir/ure I). When a cast ofthis slab was produced the identification was placed beyond all doubt. The head and neck are turned towards the left, worked in profile,with a verv sli<rht turn towards the front as if to make room for a flat 166 THE NEWLY DISCOVERED HEAD OF IRIS. elevation rising beside the head. This elevation was evidently a wing,and in the original was no doubt painted to indicate its detail drawl-ing. The modelling of the head and neck are of that broad simplecharacter which mark Pheidian art, and yet with this large stylethe artist has been able to add a singular grace and charm to theuobility of character. The modelling of the hair is not over elabo-rate, in simple broadish ridges, and yet varied in the flow of line,conveying well its peculiar texture. It is similar, in this respect,to the excellent head of Demeter in this same frieze; yet the wdiole
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Figure 1.—Slab from the East Frieze of the Parthenon (in the British Museum) repre-senting Zeus, Hera, and Iris, to which belongs the newly discovered head of Iris. peculiar mode of wearing the hair is one which marks a more youth-ful figure. The hair falls over the brow in short curls and over thetemples, and it had been hanging loosely down the back till, with herleft hand. Iris collected it into a knot at the back of her head. Thisis the action of the figure in the moment represented by the sculptor.There are several instances in the frieze in which male figures are rais-ing their hands to their heads, tying the taenia, or otherwise arrangingtheir hair. So, in the AYcst Frieze (Michaelis), Plate ix, Fig. 2; NorthFrieze, Plate xi. Fig. 38,^ Plate xiii. Figs. 97, 125; South Frieze, 3 Tn this ficjuro we liave the complete motive of the Di:i(hmienos, both hands phicedup tying the taenia, the right hand higher than the left hand; and, when we remem- THE NEWLY DISCOVERED HEAD OF IRIS.

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