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—68 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURB.127. Isis and Osiris (?). Female figure, enthroned, wearingclose-fitting dress,•necklace, and large mantle passingover the back of her head. She holds a nude figure of aboy at her breast. Eed paint on the veil. Temenos ofAphrodite.Limestone ; height, 4J inches. Naxikratis, II., pi. 14, fig. 7.FRAGMENT FROM DELOS.130. Fragment of a foot of a colossal statue of Apollo,together with a part of the plinth in the same block.The fragment consists of parts of the four greater toesof the left foot. The plinth has dowel holes at each side.Naxian marble (?). Length of great toe, 1 foot 2 inches ; height of plinth,2 feet 1 inch. This fragment was found by W. Kennard at Delos,in 1818. Stuart, 2nd edit.. III., p. 127 ; IV., section on Delos,pi. 4, fig. 2.It is no doubt a part of a colossal statue which wasdedicated by the Naxians to Apollo at Delos, and of which thebase and other parts still remain in situ. The base is inscribedon one side, Na|ioi 'AirSWccyi, and on another side in archaicletters, TaFvrov \l9ov uix' avSpias Ka\ rh ff(p4\as :" I am of thesame stone both statue and base." It is supposed that this is"the great statue of the Naxians" at Delos, which, it is said,was overturaed by the fall of a brazen palm-tree dedicated byNicias (Plutarch, Nicias, 3).The first modern traveller who saw the statue was Bondelmonte(a.d. 1416), who found it prostrate, and says that he made anunsuccessful attempt to set it up (^Liber Insularum ArchipelagicSinner's edit., p. 92).In 1447 Cyriac of Ancona sketched the basewith one foot still in position (Bull, dell'Inst., 1861, p. 182).Whenvisited by Spon and Wheler in 1675, the head, hands and feetwere lost, but the torso appears to have been nearly complete(Wheler, Journey, p. 56). In 1700 Toumefort only found thelower part of the body, and the thighs (Eng. ed. of 1741, vol. I.,pi. facing p. 303). The parts seen by Tournefort remain atDelos, and have been described by several travellers. Welcker,Alte Denkmaeler, I., p. 400 ; Michaelis, Annali dell' Inst., 1864,p. 253 ; Furtwaengler, Arch. Zeit., 1882, p. 329. For the baseand inscription, see Blouet, Exp. de Mor^e, III., pL 3, figa. 3, 4Bull, de Corr. Uell^niquCj IIL, p. 2.