Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . Fig. 11 (xxiv).. Fiu. 1-2 (XXVj. SCULPTURES FROM IKARIA. 125 cone, sacred to Reference is made, here, to the lines of Ver-gils Georgics (ii, 393-5): ergo rite suum Baccho diccmus honorcm I car-minibus patriis, lanocsque et liba feremus, I et ductus cornu stabit sacerhircus ad aram. Tiic diameter of the basin in the painting seems to beabout equal to the hciglit of the statue, so that we need not feel thatour slab is too large to be explained in this way. Nor is it an objec-tion that it is of stone, not of metal. But a se
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . Fig. 11 (xxiv).. Fiu. 1-2 (XXVj. SCULPTURES FROM IKARIA. 125 cone, sacred to Reference is made, here, to the lines of Ver-gils Georgics (ii, 393-5): ergo rite suum Baccho diccmus honorcm I car-minibus patriis, lanocsque et liba feremus, I et ductus cornu stabit sacerhircus ad aram. Tiic diameter of the basin in the painting seems to beabout equal to the hciglit of the statue, so that we need not feel thatour slab is too large to be explained in this way. Nor is it an objec-tion that it is of stone, not of metal. But a serious objection to thistheory is found in the pyramidal shape of one side and the cornicewith moulding, features which seem inexplicable in connection withsuch a basin or platter. These may be taken as rather favoring a sug-gestion which has been made, that the slab was a roof-piece over aniche, the hollow side being underneath and the strange objects someform of ornament. XXV.—Figure 12, from a piiotograph, represents the head of oneof the griffins already mentioned above
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