. Pompeii : its life and art . statue, n<.\\ in tli 444 POMPEII away from the body in the effort to balance the weight sup-ported by the left. The frame is awkwardly designed to repre-sent a snake. The thick-set figure of Silenus is less than sixteen. Fig. 249.— Listening Dionysus, wrongly identified as Narcissus. Bronze statuette in the Naples Museum. inches high. This bronze was discovered in 1864, in the houseof Popidius Priscus (VII. ii. 20). The last of the three bronzes is also a statuette, about twofeet high (Fig. 249). It was found in 1863 in a house of theseventh Region (VII. xii.
. Pompeii : its life and art . statue, n<.\\ in tli 444 POMPEII away from the body in the effort to balance the weight sup-ported by the left. The frame is awkwardly designed to repre-sent a snake. The thick-set figure of Silenus is less than sixteen. Fig. 249.— Listening Dionysus, wrongly identified as Narcissus. Bronze statuette in the Naples Museum. inches high. This bronze was discovered in 1864, in the houseof Popidius Priscus (VII. ii. 20). The last of the three bronzes is also a statuette, about twofeet high (Fig. 249). It was found in 1863 in a house of theseventh Region (VII. xii. 21). The figure is that of a youth of SCULPTURE 445 remarkable beauty. The face wears an expression of childlikeinnocence and pleasure. The head leans forward in the attitudeof listening; the index finger of the right hand is extended, andthe graceful pose is that of one who catches the almost inaudi-ble sound of a distant voice. The name Narcissus, given to the figure by Fiorelli imme-diately upon its discovery, is surely wrong; that unhappy youthdid not reciprocate the love of the nymph Echo, and could nothave been imagined with so cheerful a face. The figure hasalso been called Pan, from a myth in which Pan and Echoappear together ; but the
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