. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . dyof a horse could have been sculptured upon the missingportion of the relief, and that the figure standing imme-diately behind Herakles was consequently not a centaur, buta human being.^ In conformity with this view the figure in 1 First Report, ■p-p. 107-111, PI. 15. 2 A curious argument is advanced by an anonymous writer in the Aew YorkCritic, July i, 1882, in respect to this figure. The author of a review of theFirst Report states that there exist ancient representations of centaurs whichshow them not as quadrupeds, but as perfec
. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . dyof a horse could have been sculptured upon the missingportion of the relief, and that the figure standing imme-diately behind Herakles was consequently not a centaur, buta human being.^ In conformity with this view the figure in 1 First Report, ■p-p. 107-111, PI. 15. 2 A curious argument is advanced by an anonymous writer in the Aew YorkCritic, July i, 1882, in respect to this figure. The author of a review of theFirst Report states that there exist ancient representations of centaurs whichshow them not as quadrupeds, but as perfect human beings with the sole addi-tion of a horses tail. Hence, it is argued, the individual standing behind Her-akles on our relief, although destitute of a horses trunk and hind legs, maynevertheless be held to be a centaur, and in fact Pholos himself, who is thusrepresented to distinguish him from the other centaurs. It is scarcely necessaryto enter into a criticism of such a confusion between the clearly differentiatedforms of satyrs and of INVESTIGATIONS AT ASS OS, 1883. 15 I question was identified as lolaos, the companion of the hero,who not infrequently appears in ancient representations ofthis scene. A calculation of the original length of the blocks,with reference to the positions occupied by the separate re-liefs upon the epistyle, — in this case to be determined withcertainty, — has shown the incorrectness of the identificationat first adopted. Owing to the excessive irregularity of all themembers of the entablature, no estimate of dimensions canpretend to greater accuracy than that which may be expressedin decimeters, but even this is sufficient to furnish a ascertain the width of the intercolumniation, from centreto centre of the columns above which the block was placedwe have to add to the total length of the two fragmentsfound the length of the half-regula which is missing uponthe left-hand side. The result thus obtained — namely, ami
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