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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt:... A TORSO FROM DAPHNE. plate XXIV. The torso which by the kindness of the Ephor-General of Antiquities, Mr. Kabbadias, I am allowed to publish in this article, was found in the summer of 1892, in the Pass of Daphne, at the western end, near the temple of Aphrodite, in excavations conducted by Mr. Kabouroglos for the Archaeological Society of Athens. It is noticed in the Dcltion of 1892, p. 49, as /cop/io? veaviov opat/c? Twjs, a designation which is not only inadequate, considering the importance of the object, but incorrect. It cannot properly be called archaic. The torso is of Parian marble, and is somewhat more than twothirds life size. The only significant dimension that can be given exactly is the length of the body from the bottom of the neck to the membrum virile. This dimension is.36 m. The figure is therefore somewhat smaller than the ephebus from the Acropolis, a cut of which is given in Collignon, Histoire de la Sculpture Grecque, p. 374. It coincides more nearly in size with the Pto'fan Apollo published in the Bulletin dc Correspondance HelMnique(1886, plate vi), except that the latter has an abnormally long body. Owing to the breaking off'of the left leg and the right arm, with some of the body adjacent, it is impossible to give either the breadth of the shoulders or of the hips, or even the girth of our torso. Even the right leg is so broken as to leave no clear traces of the situation of the knee; but the thigh seems to have been longer in proportion to the body than was the case in the Ptoian Apollo. There can be little doubt that the figure was meant to represent an ephebus, not so much from its small size as from the general build. Plate xi represents the figure from two different points of view. We see at once that we have before us a por...