A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 70

Marble; height, 10-1/2 inches; width, 9-1/2 inches. _Rev. Arch._, 1891, p. 12, No. 4.

[Sidenote: =736.=]

Relief with banquet. Three elderly male figures recline on a long couch, wearing diadems and holding large bowls in their left hands.

Before them is a table with two large pomegranates and a basket of fruit. At each end of the couch is a seated woman. The head is lost of the woman on the left. At the left angle in low relief is a diminutive figure of a girl, with a basket (_calathos_); at the right angle is a diminutive figure of a boy, with a crater. The relief is bounded by pilasters and an entablature. Below is the hull of a vessel in low relief, and the metrical epitaph of Dionysodoros, son of Pytheas.

[Greek: Dionysodorou tou Pytheou.

a. Dionysodore, chaire; b. kai sy ge, o phile, to nyn ech[on g]einoske me hode keimenon, kalon kai agathon kai kalos ezokota, L]imnagene gegonota, pasi prosphil[e.]

--_Brought from Cyzicus, in 1830, by H.M.S. Blonde._ _Found in 1880 in a store at Portsmouth._

Bluish Greek marble; height, 2 feet 5-1/2 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. _C.I.G._, 3684; Kaibel, 245; Wolters, _Rhein. Mus. N.F._, 1886, p. 346.

[Sidenote: =737.=]

Late relief with banquet. A man and woman recline on a couch. Before them is a table with food. The man puts his right arm round the neck of the woman, who appears to be holding a cup, or a wreath. On the left a woman is seated on a stool; beneath the couch are a child and a girl (the upper part alone seen), who holds a dish. The relief is bounded by two Doric columns and a pediment. The monument was erected by one Alexander for his mother, his wife Philippa, and himself.

Penalties are prescribed for persons violating the tomb.

Inscribed: [Greek: Alexandros Alexandrou Beithynieu[s] kai Neikomedeus zon heauto kateskeuas[a] to mnemeion kai te metri mou kai te symbio Philippa Pontianou. kai boulome meta to tethenai hemas eis ten kamaran medena heteron anoixe; ei de para tauta poiesei dosei is ton phiskon den. b,ph (2,500) kai is ten polin den. b,ph (2,500).

chairete.]--_Smyrna._ _Presented by M. Duane and T. Tyrwhitt, Esqs., 1772._

Marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches.

_Archaeologia_, III., pl. 11, fig. 3; _C.I.G._, 3265; Pervanoglu, _Familienmahl_, p. 45, No. 180.

[Sidenote: =738.=]

Sepulchral relief. Two men recline on a couch; a woman is seated on a stool at the head of the couch. The inscribed metrical epitaph, in which one Ca.s.siodoros relates his death at the age of twenty-four, has no appropriateness to the relief.

[Greek: Nymphidiou thalamoio lipon dyspenthea kosmon kai goneon oik[t]ron dakryoenta domon keimai es [au]chmerous kai alampeas Ados eunas eikos[i t]essar' echon Ka.s.siodoros ete; ap[roi]des nous[o]s me synerpase; mounoeti[n de n]ep[i]achon kouren lipo hyp' eelion.]--_Antioch?_

Marble; height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.

Drummond's _Travels_ (1754), pl. facing p. 229, fig. 15 (very rudely drawn), and p. 237; _C.I.G._, 4466; Kaibel, 431. In Drummond's time the stone was "in the Library of the right wors.h.i.+pful the Levant Company" at Aleppo.

[Sidenote: =739.=]

Stele with reliefs in two panels. In the upper panel is a figure on a couch holding a bunch of grapes. The upper part of the figure is wanting. Before the couch are a table with food and three attendant male figures.

In the lower panel is a woman seated with a boy standing beside her. Most of these two figures is wanting. In front are two warriors standing, with s.h.i.+elds and spears.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 3 feet; width, 1 foot 9 inches. For the collection of sculptures from Kertch, see above, p. 8.

[Sidenote: =740.=]

Relief with banquet. A draped figure, now for the most part lost, reclines on a very lofty couch, holding a two-handled cup in the left hand. On the left are the knees and legs of a woman seated on a lofty throne, with an arm supported by a series of arches. Before the couch is a table with vessels of wine. A boy stands on a stool, and holds a jug in his hands. On the right is an attendant. On the left is a female figure holding a vase, and a smaller figure.

Inscribed: [Greek: ... de hyie Androne[ik]ou chaire]. Hail! ... son of Andronicos.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLx.x.xII.; Latyschev, II., 212.

[Sidenote: =741.=]

Lower part of relief with banquet, of very rude style. A male figure reclines to the right on a couch, holding a two-handled cup in the right hand. Before him is a table, with vessels of wine. At the end of the couch a woman is seated, enthroned, holding a veil with her left hand. A boy with an oinochoe stands on the right by the table. A girl with a pyxis stands on the left behind the throne. There are remains of pilasters. Inscribed: [Greek: Isigone gyne Heraklidou chaire.

Herakleide g(yne) b chaire.]--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4-1/2 inches.

_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXCI.; Latyschev, II., 96.

[Sidenote: =742.=]

Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of very rude style, contained in a lunette above the inscribed panel. A male figure reclines on a couch, with a cup in his right hand, with an uncertain object near the cup, which may perhaps be intended to represent the snake. A table stands before the couch with food. A woman sits on a stool at the foot of the couch, and holds her veil with her left hand.

A small figure of a boy is at the head of the couch. On each side of the inscribed panel is a vine branch with grapes; above are a pine cone and two lions' heads to the front in high relief. Below are the remains of a relief with a mounted horseman. On the right and left edges of the relief are snakes. The inscription states that the monument is erected by Timocrates for his wife, his son, and himself.--_Tomis._

Limestone; height, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 8-1/2 inches.

_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLXXVII.

[Sidenote: =743.=]

Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of the rudest style. Two male figures, one being bearded, recline on a couch, holding cups in their left hands. Before them is a table with food; beside it a boy with a cup and oinochoe (?), and a girl with a phiale. A woman is seated on a chair by the head of the couch, with the right hand raised to her chin. A vine branch with grapes runs round the relief and the inscribed panel. A Latin inscription states that the monument was erected in memory of a girl, Ulpia Aurelia Valeria.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 7 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet.

[Sidenote: =744.=]

Late sepulchral relief. A man reclines on a couch. A woman stands at the foot of the couch. The relief is contained in an arch-shaped field below a pediment. Inscribed, [Greek: LYTE ...]--_Obtained by the Euphrates Expedition_ _(1835-1837) and presented by Sir J. C.

Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control._

Marble; height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot 3 inches.

[Sidenote: =745.=]

Sepulchral relief, with a man seated, and a man standing holding a scroll in his left hand. The two figures probably joined their right hands. In the right and left angles are diminutive figures. On the right is a horse's head. A tree with a snake is seen above a wall in the background. The relief is surmounted by an entablature.

Inscribed with the metrical epitaph:

[Greek: Oupo] nymphidion kradie peplethota lektron Diphi]lon aiakto tod' hypena.s.se tapho gnoton] te gnote te panaidoie Stratonike ho k]ai Alexandron kouron homegenea, ast]ois kai xeinoisi proseneas, esthla men eipein esth]la de kai rhexai pantas epistamenous: Maio]genes, sy de paidas en heroessi phyla.s.sois eusebe]on aiei choron eperchomenos.]

This sculpture, and the following, No. 746, have been placed here, though they do not include the banquet, because they have some details, such as the serpent and the horse's head, similar to those on the banquet reliefs.--_Ephesus._ _Excavated by Mr. Wood, between the Magnesian Gate and the Temple of Artemis._

Ephesian marble; height, 3 feet; width, 1 foot 7-1/2 inches.

Wood, _Ephesus_, p. 123; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, DCXXV_a._

[Sidenote: =746.=]

A boy, Serapion, stands between two figures, probably those of his father and mother. All three are closely wrapped in himatia. Behind is a tree, about which is a serpent; a bird sits on a branch. The relief is bounded by pilasters, a circular arch with rosettes in the spandrels, and a pediment.

Inscribed: [Greek: Serapion, chreste kai alype chaire].

Greek marble; height, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 8-1/4 inches.