Six Greek sculptors . portions are fine and graceful, and seem tosuggest an aristocratic type. The face has much re-semblance, especially in profile, to the heads on Atticvases of about the same period; but this must not betoo much insisted on as evidence for the authorshipof the statue. The relations of the various schools toone another in the period immediately following thePersian Wars were very close and very complicated. Theidentification of this statue of a charioteer dependspartly upon the inscription that was engraved on its basis,and that has been read as a dedication of the chariotgr
Six Greek sculptors . portions are fine and graceful, and seem tosuggest an aristocratic type. The face has much re-semblance, especially in profile, to the heads on Atticvases of about the same period; but this must not betoo much insisted on as evidence for the authorshipof the statue. The relations of the various schools toone another in the period immediately following thePersian Wars were very close and very complicated. Theidentification of this statue of a charioteer dependspartly upon the inscription that was engraved on its basis,and that has been read as a dedication of the chariotgroup by Polyzalos, the brother of Gelon and Hieroof Syracuse. Many of the most famous sculptors ofGreece are recorded to have worked for this princelyfamily, among others Onatas and Glaucias of iEginaand Calamis of Athens. After what we have seen of^Eginetan work, there can be no question of assigningthe Charioteer of Delphi to that school. The attributionto Calamis is more tempting, and has actually been pro- Plate IX.
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