A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 68

Limestone; height, 2 feet 11-3/4 inches; width, 1 foot 8-3/4 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLx.x.xIV.; Latyschev, II., 78.

[Sidenote: =709.=]

A man and woman stand, clasping hands. A boy on the right. Above is a pediment with acroteria and rosettes.

Inscribed: [Greek: Gaos Gaou kai meter Basili[nd]ina chairete].--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 2 feet 6-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 7-1/4 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLx.x.xVI.; Latyschev, II., 93.

[Sidenote: =710.=]

Circular pedestal or altar on a square plinth, on one side of which is a sepulchral relief. A man stands on the right, clasping the right hand of a seated woman, probably his wife. She holds her veil with her left hand. Behind the woman stands Hermes Psychopompos, about to conduct her shade to Hades. He has petasos, talaria, chlamys and caduceus. On the right is another male figure standing, with folded hands, and beyond is what appears to be an altar. The altar is rectangular, and is surmounted by a conical object, round which a serpent is twined. By the side of the altar is the mutilated figure of a boy. On the extreme left behind Hermes is a sundial, to which his hand is pointing. At the side of the chair stands a draped female attendant of diminutive stature. This figure is much defaced, and the lower part is broken away. The head of this figure has been broken off, and the faces and general surface of all the figures are much eaten away by exposure to weather. This relief occupies about a third of the circle of the pedestal, the remainder being ornamented by festoons of ivy suspended between three bulls' heads. In the centre of the top of the pedestal is a round hole, as if to receive a dowel, and the surface of the marble seems prepared for a joint. The whole may have served as a pedestal for a statue.--_Obtained from Greece by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861._

Greek marble; height, 3 feet 7 inches; diameter, 2 feet 9 inches.

_Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 75.

RELIEFS REPRESENTING THE SEPULCHRAL BANQUET.

For a discussion of the interpretation of this cla.s.s of reliefs, see above, p. 298.

[Sidenote: =711.=]

Cast of a sepulchral relief, sometimes known as the "Death of Socrates." A man, bearded, reclines on a couch, with a bowl in his right hand, held out as if to pour a libation. A woman seated on a stool by the foot of the couch, extends her hands. On the right is a man, draped and bearded, and on the left a nude youth who stands with a jug by a large crater. Below the couch is a dog gnawing a bone. The original, of white marble, was found at _the Piraeus_ in 1838, and is now in the _National Museum at Athens_.

Height, 1 foot 7-1/2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. [Greek: Ephemeris], 1839, No. 269; Le Bas, _Mon. Fig._, pl. 52; Pervanoglu, _Familienmahl_, p. 24, No. 60; Mitch.e.l.l, p. 504; Wolters, No. 1052; Roscher, _Lexicon_, p. 2574.

[Sidenote: =712.=]

Relief with banquet. Two male figures recline together on a couch. One is a bearded man, the other is a youth. The man holds a bowl in his left hand and places his right hand on the shoulder of the youth who turns his head towards him. Before the couch is a table with provisions. On the right is a nude youth with a jug and bowl. On the left is a youth, wearing tunic and chlamys, who leads a horse. The relief is bounded by pilasters and an architrave.

On the lower margin is the modern inscription _Aesculapio Tarentino Salenius Arcas_, added by some person who supposed that the relief was a votive tablet to Aesculapius. The inscription, however, makes it probable that the relief was obtained at Tarentum. The type of the horse also agrees well with that on the coins of Tarentum, of about the close of the fourth century, B.C. The relief is perhaps erected to a father and two sons. It is also possible that the two figures of the youth represent the same person, and that only two persons in all are here commemorated.--_Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., 1845._

Marble, probably Pentelic; height, 1 foot 10-1/2 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. The upper right-hand corner is restored. P.

Gardner, _Journ. of h.e.l.len. Studies_, V., p. 105, and plate; Wolters, No. 1054; Roscher, _Lexicon_, p. 2575.

[Sidenote: =713.=]

Relief with banquet, serpent, and sacrifice. Two men recline on a couch. Both have cups in their left hands. One holds up a rhyton terminating in a ram's head; the other stretches out his right hand to a long table which stands before the couch. A woman, seated on the end of the couch, holds a cup in her left hand and stretches out her right hand to the table. Below the table is a coiled serpent. On the left of the woman is a nude youth holding up a rhyton. Beyond is a square altar, to which a boy, who is now almost obliterated, leads a pig. He holds a bowl in his left hand. On the left are four adult persons and two infants, and above, the head of a horse in a frame. The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by an entablature, above which roof-tiles are slightly indicated.--_Townley Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches.

[Sidenote: =714.=]

Fragment of relief with banquet and sacrifice. On the right is part of the figure of a woman, who is seated at the foot of a couch, most of which is now lost. Before her is part of a table. At the foot of the couch is an altar which is approached by a procession of three adult persons and four children, one of whom leads a ram. Above, a horse's head is seen at a window. The relief is bounded by pilasters and an entablature, above which roof-tiles are shown.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 3 inches; width, 1 foot 1/2 inch.

_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 35, fig. 1; _Synopsis_, No. 279 (94); Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_, II., p. 273; cf. Welcker, _loc. cit._, II., pl. 13, No. 24; Pervanoglu, _Familienmahl_, p. 44, No. 174.

[Sidenote: =715.=]

Fragment of relief, which may be supposed to have been similar to the preceding. Sacrificial procession, including a man, of whom but little remains, a woman, two children, and one draped figure, whose s.e.x cannot be distinguished, carrying a large vessel on the head.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 4-3/4 inches; width, 9-1/2 inches.

_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 36, fig. 3; _Synopsis_, No. 189 (284); _Guide to Elgin Room_, Part II., No. F. 6.

[Sidenote: =716.=]

Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, who is half draped, reclines on a couch with a bowl in his right hand. He wears a _polos_ and in type resembles a divinity. Before him is a table with food.

A woman is seated on the foot of the couch and has a cup in her left hand. On the right a youth draws wine from a crater. On the left a man, woman, and boy approach as wors.h.i.+ppers. The relief is bounded by two pilasters, surmounted by an entablature, above which are roof-tiles.--_Townley Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 9-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1-3/4 inches.

Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 167; Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_, II. p. 278.

[Sidenote: =717.=]

Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, half draped and wearing a _polos_ as in the last relief, reclines on a couch. He has a cup in the left hand and a rhyton in the right hand. Before him is a table with food. A woman is seated at the foot of the couch, with a cup in her left hand. On the left a boy stands beside a jar of wine, which is raised on a pedestal. At the left a woman, and two smaller figures approach as wors.h.i.+ppers. Above, the head of a horse is seen looking through an opening. The relief is bounded by two pilasters, surmounted by an entablature, above which are roof-tiles.-- _Halicarna.s.sos._ _Presented by H.M. Sultan Abdul Medjid to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, and by him presented to the British Museum._

Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.

[Sidenote: =718.=]

Fragment of relief. A nude male figure who seems to be wearing a Phrygian cap, and holds some object in his right hand, stands with his left hand over an altar. On the right side of the altar was a male figure making a libation. Only the right hand with the saucer, and the right foot remain. On the left a bearded man stands, with his right hand raised.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.

_Synopsis_, No. 380 (101); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 37, fig. 1.

[Sidenote: =719.=]

Group of persons about to sacrifice; from the left side of a sepulchral relief. On the right of the fragment is a man with a large amphora, turned to the right. Behind him are two men and two women, all standing as wors.h.i.+ppers.--_Mytilene._

Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 11 inches. Conze, _Lesbos_, p.

10, Note 3, No. 1.

[Sidenote: =720.=]

Fragment of relief with banquet and serpent. A man reclines on a couch and pours a libation from a bowl. Before the couch is a table with food. A serpent is coiled beneath the table and stretches its head towards the bowl. On the left is the hand holding a casket (_pyxis_) of a woman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch. The relief is bounded by pilasters, an entablature and a roof.

Marble; height, 1 foot 1 inch; width, 9 inches.

[Sidenote: =721.=]

Relief with a female figure of the type of the banquet reliefs. A woman seated, wearing a lofty head-dress (_polos_), holds an ivy-leaf fan in her left hand, and with the right hand appears to be offering a cup to a serpent.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 3-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 5-3/4 inches. _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 38, fig. 3; _Synopsis_, No. 278 (238); Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 127, No. 278.