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Title: Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Clarke, Joseph Thacher
Subjects: Assos (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. The design is frankly ^ Clarac (li/nsee, vol. ii. part ii.) repeatedly refers to the fragments of sculp-tures removed from Assos to Paris as seventeen in number. But if we considerthe relief of the Banquet to be composed of four separate pieces, the totalnumber of fragments would be eighteen. 2 The archaeological literature upon the subject of centaurs is extensive.The chief authorities in regard to it are referred to by Colvin (Sidney) in hisRepresentations of Centaurs in Greek Vase Painting, yournal of Hellenic Stitdies,vol. i., London, iS8o. But although he goes as far back as Bochart (Samuel),Hierozoico7t, sive de Animalibus Sacra Scriptiirce, Londini, 1663, and Bachet (ClaudeCaspar), Commentaires sur les Epitres dOvide, La Haye, 1716, his list is far fromcomplete. The most thorough and learned contributions to the subject in recentyears have certainly been those of Stephani (Ludolf), in the Conipte Rendu de laCommission Itnperiale dArcheologie de St. Petersbourg, 1865 and 1S73.
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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 18S3. I43 decorative, the differences in position being so slight thatthe monsters, placed as^lKey^wereTiT^a^aixhitecUlral frame-work, and at some height above the eye, must at the firstgla.noe_have appeared^almost like-repetitions of a convention-alized ^rn amen t. The bodies, entirely similar in outline, are,like the heads, shown exactly in profile ; yet, in a childlikestriving after clearness of representation, the front legs ofeach centaur are placed before, while the hind legs are be-hind, those of the individuals which they adjoin. The pattern-like effect of the composition is greatly augmented by thisoverlapping. With a single exception, the arms are heldout at length ; the thumbs of the left hand all point up-wards, the thumbs of the right downwards. The right andleft legs are precisely parallel, being, as it were, shown inperspective. The tails, made prominent in the relief by toogreat a projection from the background, fall in the samecurve, nearly to

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