PERICLES

From a Terme found in the year 1780 in the Oliveto del Dottor de Matthias called the Pianella di Casilio there was also found another head of Pericles now in the collection of Charles Townley Esq and a Terme without a head with the name of Phidias inscribed upon it Pericles from the peculiar form of his head was called by the Attic Poets Schinocephalus and his statues probably for this reason were almost all galeated See Plutarch’s Life of Pericles London edition by Bryan p 339 The sculpture in this Terme appears to correspond with the character given by Plutarch as it discovers the hair through the eye hole of the helmet which carries the head higher than what is generally seen in nature This has been carefully copied in the Intaglio