49 (original number) and 8-5107 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.158 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Apollo of Tenea. From a statue of probably Parian marble discovered at Athiki (ancient Tenea) of the Isthmos of Corinth in 1846. Roya Glyptothek, Munich. On the original, legs and arms were broken in six pieces, but were refitted with no remodeled restorations of any consequence. Baron Prokesch von Osten bought the statue. Villagers told me there in 1898, that an English vessel anchored at Kenchreai by night to export the statue secretly, which its discoverer, upon seeing her previously combined signal, took aboard. They call the statue ὁ βαδιλεὐς ὁ Άπολλωνας King Apollo. Numerous examples have come to light, since 1836, of early Greek male statues in the attitude of this one. so the Apollo of Thera, two at Actium one at Orchomenos, several on Mt. Ptous Boeotia, one on the island of Melos, one in Attica. The last, and probably our statue, were sepulchral effigies. Some are dedicated to Apollo. Homolle calls the two big ones at Dlephi Kleobis and Biton of Argos. The apollo of Tenea is the most advanced and probably the latest of the earlier type. The taste and effort of Crown Prince, later King Louis of Bavaria, endowed Munich with one of the finest antique sculpture galleries in Europe. Put in order by Professor Furtwaengler’s purchases. This museum ought to have the Eirene of Kephisodotos, and examples of the famous Aeginetau sculptures.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Tenea (ancient place), Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
copy made at the Cast Works of the Louvre Museum, Paris