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BEANCHIDAE. 17which, the sculptures of Branchidae must be assigned.is certain that none of them are later than the destructionof the temple by the Persians, and the latest of them(No. 16) appears a generation earlier than the worksassociated with that period. On the other hand, there isno reason to place the oldest before the early part of thesixth century B.C. Thus these sculptures cover the periodof (say) 580-520 B.C. On epigraphic grounds, the datemay be more closely defined. It is believed that theolder form for rj was changed to H shortly before550 B.C. By this criterion, Nos. 10, 17, belong to an oldergroup, and No. 14 to a later group. An inscribed basenow in the British Museum with the name of an artist,Terpsicles, also belongs to the older group (Roehl, I.G.A.,484). It has been suggested that Chares of Teichioussa(No. 14) was one of the local tyrants who were establishedafter the destruction of the kingdom of Croesus (546 B.C.),and this agrees well with the epigraphical evidence.The statues of Branchidae are of interest because theyexhibit the process by which the grotesque coarsenessof primitive work tends towards the stiff and formal refinementthat marks the later stage of archaic art. Theseries in the British Museum breaks off before the secondstage has been completely attained, but it can be wellsupplemented by a seatel female figure from Miletus,now in the Louvre (Rayet et Thomas, Milet et le GolfeLatmique, pi. 21).The sculptures of the Sacred Way were discovered by Chandler in1765 {Antiqs. of Ionia, 1st ed., I. p. 46; Chandler, Travels inAsia Minor, 1775, p. 152). They were more accurately examinedby Gell, and the second Dilettanti expedition in 1812{Antiqs. of Ionia, 2nd ed., 1821, Part I., p. 29, vignette, andch. III., pi. 1 ; Miiller, Denkmaeler, I., pi. 9, fig. 33). A moreaccurate sketch was made by Ross {Arch. Zuit., 1850,* pi. 13),Such of the sculptures as could be found in 1858 were removedby Sir C. Newton ; Newton, II., p. 527. On the inscriptions seeKirchhoff, StwMen, 4th ed., pp. 19, 25.It