A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 63

Lower part of sepulchral relief, much mutilated. A female figure is seated to the front on a lofty throne. She holds a fruit in her left hand. On the left is a youth with a box; and on the right a female figure, whose right hand was raised to her chin. The arms of the throne are supported by Sphinxes.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches.

[Sidenote: =646.=]

A female figure, Demetria, seated on a chair, extends her right hand to a box, held by a girl standing before her; behind is another standing female figure.

Inscribed: [Greek: [D]emetria].--_Probably from Athens._ _Obtained by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen._

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

_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXIII.; _C.I.A._, III., 3072.

[Sidenote: =647.=]

Lower part of a sepulchral relief. A fully draped female figure, wanting above the breast, is seated on a stool. The left hand was probably raised to the chin or to the veil. Before her, a female figure of which nothing remains except a portion of drapery, from the knees downwards. A small boy stands at the knee of the seated woman, and raises his right hand.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

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

_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 39, fig. 2; _Synopsis_, No. 196 (162).

[Sidenote: =648.=]

Boy seated on a rock fis.h.i.+ng with a rod and line for a large fish, a basket in his left hand. Above a pediment.

Inscribed in rude late characters, [Greek: Agathemeros Asiacho syntropho mnemes charin].--Placed by Agathemeros in memory of his foster brother Asiachos.--_Athens._ _Purchased from the Besborough Coll. 1801._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 2 inches; width, 10-1/2 inches.

_C.I.G._, 6892.

[Sidenote: =649.=]

A girl, seated on a stool, holds an open scroll on her lap. Before her is a column, on which is another scroll (?); on the left is a dog raising a paw. The relief is bounded by pilasters and a pediment, slightly sketched out.

Inscribed: [Greek: Abeita zesasa ete [=i] menas dyo chairete]--Avita, who lived ten years and two months. Hail.--_Townley Coll._

Parian marble; height, 1 foot 1 inch; width, 11 inches. Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 165. _C.I.G._, 6866; Wolters, No. 1811.

[Sidenote: =650.=]

Youthful female figure, standing, holding an ivy-leaf fan in the right hand, and a part of the mantle with the left hand.

Inscribed: [Greek: Synphoro[n] Herakleid[ou] Karystia]. Synphoron, of Carystos, daughter of Heracleides.--_Athens?_

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 11-1/2 inches.

_C.I.G._, 857; _C.I.A._, III., 2510; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.

Mus._, CI.

[Sidenote: =651.=]

Nude figure of boy, standing, with chlamys thrown over his left shoulder. He holds a partridge in his left hand, and holds its beak with his right hand.

Inscribed: [Greek: Menekrates Menonos]--Menecrates, son of Menon.--_Athens._ _Strangford Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 9 inches; width, 11 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXXI.; _C.I.A._, III., 3276; _Arch.

Anzeiger_, 1864, p. 164*.

[Sidenote: =652.=]

Fragment of sepulchral relief. A draped female figure is seated on a couch, with right hand raised to her veil; before her, two girls, of whom one holds a ball and the other a fan.--_Found in a store at Portsmouth._ _Probably from Smyrna._

Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 1 foot 1-1/2 inch.

[Sidenote: =653.=]

A boy throws a ball for a dog which springs up towards him.--_Strangford Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 10-1/2 inches.

_Arch. Anzeiger_, 1864, p. 165*.

[Sidenote: =654.=]

Draped male figure standing, with a boy at his side; above an arch, springing from pilasters, and surmounted by a pediment with rosette and acroteria.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 2 feet 3-3/4 inches; width, 1 foot 9-1/2 inches.

[Sidenote: =655.=]

Sepulchral relief, rude and late. Standing, draped female figure raises her right hand to her cheek. The first inscription has been obliterated, and in place of it is the inscription, [Greek: SoT ...

NIKE chaire].

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

[Sidenote: =656.=]

Sepulchral monument of Artipous. An old woman is seated wrapped in her mantle, with a pomegranate in her left hand. A girl stands at her left side holding a box and a purse (?). The relief is bounded by pilasters, surmounted by a pediment with acroteria.

Inscribed: [Greek: Artipous Alkima] and [symbol: L][Greek: p].

[symbol: L] is a symbol, chiefly used in Ptolemaic inscriptions to precede a numeral denoting a year. The inscription therefore appears to mean '80 years old,' if [Greek: p] is given its usual value.--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 4 feet 1/2 inch; width, 2 feet 5-3/4 inches.

_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CCII.; Latyschev, II., 133.

[Sidenote: =657.=]

A draped figure, Theodote, seated on a throne, raises her left hand to her veil. Before her a figure of a girl, standing. The arms of the throne are supported by Sphinxes. Above the relief are an arch, springing from pilasters, a pediment with acroteria, and rosettes.

Inscribed: [Greek: [Theod]ote gyne [Myrinou, chaire]].--_Kertch._

Limestone; height, 2 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 8-1/2 inches.