Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 8·1951

Hellenistic Portraits, McFadden 1951George H. McFadden

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 8 (Hellenistic Portraits, McFadden 1951), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 54

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perhaps Lysippus was the father. [handwritten: Partial? Italian? female?] Idealized portraits are still to be found on the coinage of the day but not in the portraiture of Ptolemy I Soter. [handwritten: ^] Aristotle writes in the poetics that one should imitate the good portrait painters who, although they reproduce the likeness of their subject, make him more handsome than he is.

[handwritten: και γαρ εκεινοι απεδιδουσι την ιδιαν μορφην ομοιως ποιουντες καλλιου γεγραφοτες]

Handwritten: 3

Handwritten: XV, 10, 11

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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