LETO AND THE CHILDREN

Year 1981, Issue: 22, 99 - 109, 01.01.1981

Brunhilde S. Rıdgway

https://doi.org/10.1501/andl_0000000249

Abstract

Ekrem Akurgaî has always been interested in ali aspects of Anatolian art and culture; it is hoped that he will enjoy this study which attempts to interpret a well-known sculptural type in the light of Lycian legends.
The type in question is that of a peplophoros in a running pose, holding in her arms, at shoulder level, two children who have been identifıed as Artemis and Apollo with their mother Leto. Known at first only from depictions on coins and two marbie statuettes in Rome (Fig. 1)^ the composition has now acquired additional importance through the discovery of three over-life size replicas: one in the theater at Miletos (Figs. 2-3), one from Building Q in Pisidian Kremna and another from nearby Seleukia (Figs. 4-5) (2). Although these large copies are headless ar d fragmentary, only scars or breaks occurring at the shoulders where tl.' children önce rested, the appearance of the original can be approximatelj reconstructed through one of the two statuettes in Rome, in the Torlonia Museum.

Keywords

LETO, CHILDREN, ANATOLIAN

References

• Ankara Üniversitesi - Ankara Anadolu (Anatolia) Dergisi