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264 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.AGORACRITOS OF PAROS.460. Fragment of colossal head, showing the right cheek,right eyelid and right side of the head as far as the ear.The hair is waved. On the crown of the head elevenholes are pierced in the marble, evidently for the attachmentof a wreath or other ornament. The left side andback of the head have been cut or broken away. So faras can be inferred from the little original surface remaining,this head was in a fine style of the fifth century B.C.The style and material of this work, and the place ofits discovery, give good grounds for thinking that it is afragment of the famous statue of Nemesis by Agoracritos ofFaros. The exact date of Agoracritos is not recorded, buthe is said to have been a favourite pupil of Pheidias.Thestatue of Nemesis is described as a colossal figure of thetype of Aphrodite, holding in her hands an apple branchand a phiale, on which were figures of Aethiopians. Shehad no wings, and stood on a base, sculptured withsubjects relating to the birth of Helen and the Trojan war.The figure wore a diadem, adorned with deer and figuresof Victory of no great size. Compare the diadem of Pandora,described by Hesiod, Theogony, 581 ; the diadem ofHera of Polycleitos (Paus., ii,, 17, 4); the Cypriote terracottas,in the Terracotta Eoom, wall cases 1 and 27 ; and theCypriote sculptures in the Cyprus Eoom. The numerousholes mentioned above must have served for the attachmentof an ornament of some weight, and so confirm theproposed identification.According to tradition the statue was made of a blockof Parian marble,which was brought by the Persians,before the battle of Marathon, to be erected as a trophyfor the capture of Athens. (Paus., i., 33. 2 ; Anihol.Pal. Ajyp. Plan., iv., 221, 222, 263). Found on the site