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—;86 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.209. Statue of Apollo, standing. The chief weight of thebody is thrown on the right leg, while the left knee isbent, and the left foot rests lightly on the ground. Thehead is slightly turned to the right. The hair is dressedwith the headdress known as the krohylos.The left hand and right forearm, which appear to havebeen separate pieces, are wanting. The left hand heldsome attribute, perhaps a branch, for which there is amark of attachment by the left knee. The right hand,which rested on the stump beside the right leg, seems tohave held1818.a strap.From the Choiseul-Gouffier Collection,Marble ; height, 5 feet 10| inches. Restored : tip of nose. Specimens,II., pi. 5 ; Ellis, Townley Gallery, I. p. 194 ; Clarac, III., pi. 482b,No. 931a; Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 32 ; Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I.,pi. 4 ; Stereoscopic, No. 143 ; Murray, I., pi. 8 ; Wolters, No. 221.This statue, commonly known as the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo,together with other examples of the same type, has given riseto much discussion. The chief replica is a statue at Athens,commonly called the 'Apollo on the Omphalos,* having beenassociated with a marble omphalos, or sacred cone of Apollo,which was discovered at the same time. Grave doubts, however,exist as to the connection of the figure and of theomphalos, (^Joum. of Hellen. Studies, I., p. 180 ; AthenischeMittheilungen, IX., p. 248.) The Athenian statue is published,Conze, Beitrdge, pis. 3, 5; Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., pi. 5Murray, I., pi. 8; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 42. For a list ofother replicas of the type, see Athenische Mittheilungen, IX.,p. 239. The statue is generally taken to be an Apollo. Ithas, indeed, been argued that it is a pugilist, and not Apollo(Waldstein, Journ. of Hellen. Studies, I., p. 182; Overbeck, Gr.Plast., 3rd ed., II., p. 414) ; and if the figure is Apollo, it must beadmitted that ' the proportions are rather suited to the patron ofpugilism (//. ;|/. 660) than to the leader of a celestial orchestra *{Specimens, II., pi. 5 ; Athenische Mittheilungen, IX., p. 244). Butthe title is established by a quiver attached to the stump of areplica in Rome (Matz-Duhn, Biklw. in Rum, I., No. 179), andof a somewhat similar figure at Cassel (Athenische Mittheilungen,I., pi. 10), and by the fact that a copy (No. 210) has been foundin the temple of Apollo at Gyrene. Moreover, the head of a