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i., p. 153, that the work is a modern fraud. Pa. the following number of the Journal Mr- Furtwangler* defends the work, but would place it not earlier than the first century B. C. He says it is not ar- Grecian. chaic, but archaistic. "Whether the work _be genuine or spurious I am not competent to judge. I may venture to say, however, that the attitude of the shaft-hand is very inaccurate. However absurd the .drawing of the hand often is in these early Greek releases, the artists have rarely fai...led to adjust the arrow correctly in relation to Fig. 48. Grecian. the bend of the bow and the angle made by the string in tension. In this bas-relief of Herakles, however, the at- titude of shooting is one of which no artist capable of mak- ing so robust and correct a body and pose would-be guilty, and it certainly lends some weight to the supposition of Dr. Emerson as to the possible character of the work. •3 OE ARROW-RELEASE. . ■% 39 A The accompanying figures are interesting as/showingthe conventional and even grotesque ways in which the arrow release is often represented on early Grecian vases.
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