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270 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.Jakrhick desArch. Inst., I., 1886, pi. 3, No. 2 ;p. 16, A', (Michaelis).There is a drawing by Cipriani in the British Museum (^Add.MSS. 21,118, No. 12).The best examples of the type are :—(a) A statue at LansdowneHouse, London. Specimens of Ant. Sculpture, II., pi. 10. Cat.of Lansdowne Marbles, No. 83. (6) A bronze head from Herculaneum,now in the Museum at Naples. Comparetti, LaVilla Ercolanese, pi. 8, fig. 1. (c) Compare the Amazon on thePhigaleian frieze (No. 522). For further literature andexamples, see Michaelis, loc.cit.504. Head of Hera (?). Ideal female head wearing a loftydiadem. The Lair was brought to the back of the head,where it was tied in a knot, now lost.It is thought possible that this head may be derivedfrom the Argive statue of Hera by Polycleitos, for whichthe coins of Argos may be compared (Journ. of Hellen.Studies, vi., pi. 54, Nos. 12-15). Girgenti.Marble ; height, 1 foot 4 inches. The lower part of the back of thehead on the right side, which had been broken, has been in moderntimes roughly carved on the fractured surface to represent hair,and the end of the diadem. The surface of the faca has alsosuffered from being worked over. The genuineness of thesculpture has been questioned, without reason. Men. dell'Inst., IX., pi. 1; Helbig, Annali dell' Inst., 1869, p. 144;Overbeck, Gr. Kunstmyth., pi. 9, figs. 4, 5 ; II., p. 81, 3Murray, I., p. 268 ; Wolters, No. 501 ; Furtwaengler, Arch. Zeit^1885, p. 275, fig. A ; Murray, Somische Mittheilungen, I., p. 123.THE TEMPLE OP APOLLO AT PHIGALEIA.The Temple of Apollo Epicurios, at Phigaleia, in Arcadia,stands in a slight depression on the bare and windsweptsideof Mount Cotylion, above the valley of theriver Neda. It was discovered towards the end of theeighteenth century, but on account of its remote position itwas seldom visited before 1811. In that year the party ofexplorers, who had previously discovered the pedimental