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Asklepios by Bryaxis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. Six
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In the Museum of Alexandria is to be seen a colossal head of fine workmanship which has its face curiously surrounded by rough planes where curly hair would be expected, and where this must have been added originally in coloured plaster (Pl. I. a). It has been taken for a head of Sarapis or Zeus, and I must confess I have accepted the former name unsuspiciously, so great is the similitude in style to the various copies of the Sarapis of Bryaxis, of which the Egpytian museums possess several by far exceeding in artistic merits the more generally known head of the Vatican. On the other hand, it reminded me so much of the famous Blacas Asklepios from Melos in the British Museum (PL I.b) that I did not doubt the likeness went so far as to prove the latter to be another work of Bryaxis.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , 1922 , pp. 31 - 35
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1922

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