Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . Fig. 3 (ii). Fig. 4 (ii). to the same statue. The kantharos points to Dionysos, and strengthensour attribution of the statue to that divinity. The type seems to bemuch the same as that afterward followed by Alkamenes in his cele-brated temple-statue of Dionysos, of which several coins ^^ are supposed ^ [The palm of the hand between thumb and fingers is left rough and the outside of the palm, opposite the root of the thumb, is a break which showsthat the hand was here attached to something, probably the knee or chair, by
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . Fig. 3 (ii). Fig. 4 (ii). to the same statue. The kantharos points to Dionysos, and strengthensour attribution of the statue to that divinity. The type seems to bemuch the same as that afterward followed by Alkamenes in his cele-brated temple-statue of Dionysos, of which several coins ^^ are supposed ^ [The palm of the hand between thumb and fingers is left rough and the outside of the palm, opposite the root of the thumb, is a break which showsthat the hand was here attached to something, probably the knee or chair, by a mar-ble support about m. square. Its position is such that the kantharos must havebeen tipped considerably from the perpendicular. Cf. the Attic coin representingthe statue of Dionysos by Alkamenes, and many vase-paintings.—A. C. M.] [The remains of a bronze pin or strap are still visible in the sole of the sandalson the inside of each foot near the base of the great toe, and a hole for a similarpiece exists on the outside of the left foot near the
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