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A Bronze Figure of a Youth in Oriental Costume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. H. Smith
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The remarkable bronze figure published on Pl. II. was exhibited, by permission of the owner, at a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies on Tuesday, May 8. It has not, so far as I am aware, been discussed in print, and has all the interest which attaches to an unsolved problem.

The figure was said to have been found by Egyptian natives, in 1912, in ruins to the east of the Suez Canal, but other reports ascribed it to Alexandria; and it is clear that, unless better information comes to hand, no stress can be laid on the alleged place of origin.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 37 , November 1917 , pp. 135 - 139
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1917

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References

1 Compare a figure of a boy, once in the Gréau collection, and not I think, entirely above suspicion. I owe this reference to Miss Hutton.

2 B.M.C. Seleucidae, Pl. 27.

3 Plut., Antonius 54Google Scholar. The story is closely paraphrased by Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleop., Act III. sc. 6.

4 Dio Cassias 21, 21; Plutarch, , Antonius 87Google Scholar.

5 Grueber, Cat. of Coins of the Roman Republic, Pl. 115, Figs. 10 and 15. Compare also the denarius of Augustus, ibidem, Pl. 119, Fig. 4.

6 Humann, and Puchstein, , Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien, p. 232Google Scholar.

7 Humann and Puchstein, op. cit. Atlas,. Pl. 39.

8 Humann, and Puchstein, , Atlas, Pl. 35, Fig. 2; p. 290Google Scholar.

9 Perdrizet, , Bull, de Corr. Hellénique, xxi. p. 517Google Scholar; Pls. 5–8. Cf. Biardot, Terres-Cuites Grecques, Pls. 16, 17.