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the Sky-god's faces 389
a comic mask\ As to the synthesis of human heads, exact duplica-
tion of the same face is rare'-. Far more frequent is the union of
two personages likely to be associated in memory. For example,
Fig. 297.
J. J. Bernoulli in the course of his great works on Greek and
Roman iconography has occasion to discuss double portrait-herms
of Homer and Hesiod*, Sophokles and Euripides^ Herodotos and
1 Ant. Skulpt. Berlin p. 92 f. no. 214 fig. Blueish marble. Height o"io"'. This
double herm was acquired by E. Gerhard in Rome (184 1).
Cp. a sard, obtained in Constantinople (1884) and now
in the Lewis collection at Cambridge (J. H. Middleton
The Lewis Collection of Gems and Rings London 1892
p. 52 no. 44); which has tragic and satyric masks, back
to back, with a mask of Pan above them (fig. 298
== scale \).
- Supra p. 371 n. i. See also J. J. Bernoulli Grieck-
ische Ikonographie Mtinchen 1901 ii. 96 n. 4, Ant. Skulpt.
Berlin p. 185 f. nos. 476, 477 (two double herms recall-
ing the type of Polykleitos' dorypMros).
* J. J. Bernoulli Griechische Ikonographie Miinchen
1901 i. 9, 29 f. figs. 3 f. ^ Id. ib. i.
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