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The inscription runs [Greek: Ari]stonike Diokleio[us Xy]p[e(taion) K]ephisogenes Kephisophontos Xy(petaion) Arist[o]nike Kephisophontos Xyp(etaion) Kephisophon Kephisodorou Xype(taion)]. It contains the names of Aristonike, daughter of Diocles, of Xypete; of Kephisogenes and Aristonike, probably the children of Kephisophon; and of Kephisophon, son of Kephisodoros of Xypete.--_Obtained in Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot; width, 1 foot 2-1/4 inches.
_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, XC.; _C.I.A._, II., 2365.
[Sidenote: =633.=]
Male figure stands to the left, with right arm extended. Before him is a table, on which is a large hydria.--_Obtained in Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 7-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 3/4 inch.
[Sidenote: =634.=]
Beardless male figure stands, wearing a himation. He has a short staff or scroll in the left hand. The relief was originally surmounted by a pediment.
Inscribed [Greek: Hermodoros Aristomenou(s)]--Hermodoros, son of Aristomenes.
Bluish Greek marble; height, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 6-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: =635.=]
Bearded figure stands, draped in a himation. The stele is surmounted by a bulbous ornament not worked in relief. Inscribed [Greek: E]rasippos, [Ka]llenikou [Kr]ioeus].--Erasippos, son of Callenicos of Crioa.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 1 inch; width, 9 inches. _Mus.
Marbles_, IX., pl. 30, fig. 3; _C.I.G._, 665; _C.I.A._, II., 2223; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, Lx.x.xVIII.
[Sidenote: =636.=]
Stele fitting into a base. Figures of an athlete anointing himself, and of an attendant holding spear and drapery.
Marble; height, 1 foot 11 inches; width, 1 foot 3-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: =637.=]
Fragment of sepulchral relief, containing the upper parts of a bearded man and a woman conversing. On the left a younger female figure.
Inscribed: [Greek: Aristodike, Aristarchos, Athenas, Sestioi]--Aristodike, Aristarchos, and Athenais, of Sestos.--_Athens._ _Found by Chandler, fixed in the wall of a church, on the road to Cephisia. Presented by the Society of Dilettanti._
Pentelic marble; height, 7-3/4 inches; width, 1 foot 2-1/2 inches.
Chandler, _Inscriptions Ant._, Part II., No. 95; _Synopsis_, No. 336 (236*); _C.I.G._, 892; _C.I.A._, II., 3313; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CVIII.
[Sidenote: =638.=]
A bearded figure, Aristocles, rides a prancing horse and places his right hand on its head. A youth in a short chiton runs behind the horse. Inscribed:
[Greek: Polla meth' helikias h.o.m.oelikos hedea paisas ek gaias blaston gaia palin gegona.
Eimi de Aristokles Peiraieus, pais de Menonos].
'After many pleasant sports with my comrades, I who sprang from dust, am dust once more. I am Aristocles, of the Piraeus, son of Menon.'--_Athens._ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 6 inches.
Stuart, III., p. 56; Chandler, _Inscriptions Ant._, Part II., No. 78 ("fixed in a wall at the door of the Greek School"); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 34, fig. 3; _Synopsis_, No. 384 (213); _C.I.G._, 749; _C.I.A._, II., 2442; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.
Mus._, XCII.; Kaibel, 75.
[Sidenote: =639.=]
A priestess stands, with chiton, and a knotted himation bordered with a fringe; she holds a key in her right hand, and a basket in her left hand. On the right is a tree. Above, a pediment with acroteria and a rosette; also an honorary wreath.
Inscribed: [Greek: Ho demos Isiada Metrodorou Laodikida].--Decreed by the people, in honour of Isias of Laodicea, daughter of Metrodoros.--_Smyrna._ _Presented by M. Duane and T. Tyrwhitt, Esqs., 1772._
Bluish Greek marble; height, 4 feet 2-1/4 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Montfaucon, _Ant. Expl. Suppl._, V., p. 25; _Archaeologia_, III., pl. 11, fig. 1; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 161; _C.I.G._, 3234.
[Sidenote: =640.=]
A draped female figure, seated on a chair, holds out a corner of her veil with her right hand. Another female figure stands before her, closely wrapped in her mantle. A diminutive female figure is in the right-hand corner of the relief. The relief is bounded by pilasters, a circular arch, and a pediment.
Parian marble? height, 3 feet; width, 2 feet 4 inches.
[Sidenote: =641.=]
Fragment of sepulchral stele, with the lower part of a female figure moving to the right.--_From Mycenae._ _Inwood Coll._
Red marble; height, 10 inches; width, 10-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 427.
[Sidenote: =642.=]
Late sepulchral relief. A female figure, seated on a stool, holds her mantle, which pa.s.ses over her head, with the left hand, and a scroll (?) in her right hand. The relief is surmounted by an arch and rosettes, above which is a pediment with acroteria, unfinished, and a rosette.
Inscribed: [Greek: Mousis Argaiou Milesia]. Mousis, daughter of Argaios of Miletus.--_Athens._ _Found by Chandler. Presented by the Society of Dilettanti._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 2-3/4 inches; width, 1 foot 2-1/4 inches. Chandler, _Inscriptiones Ant._, Part II., No. 91; _Synopsis_, 1st ed., Room VI., No. 27 (where Thomas Hollis is incorrectly said to be the donor); Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 171; _C.I.G._, 726; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CIII.
[Sidenote: =643.=]
A female figure, draped, and seated on a stool, raises her right hand to draw her peplos over her head. A draped male figure stands before her, and a boy at the left corner; above is a pediment.
Inscribed with a name now illegible, and [Greek: chaire].--_Found in a store at Portsmouth. Probably from Smyrna._
Marble; height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot 2-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: =644.=]
Sepulchral relief, mutilated on the left. A female figure draped and seated on a chair, draws her peplos over her shoulder with her left hand. Above, a pediment.
Inscribed with a name now illegible, terminating in [Greek: o], and [Greek: chairete hapantes].--_Obtained by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in Greece, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen._
Marble; height, 1 foot 9-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1/2 inch.
_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, Cx.x.xIII.; Conze, _Attische Grabreliefs_, No. 46; pl. 23, fig. 1.
[Sidenote: =645.=]
