_Brought from the monastery of Asomato or Petraki at Athens by Dr.
Anthony Askew about 1747._ _Townley Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches.
_Burney MSS._, No. 402; _Mus. Marbles_, X., pl. 33; Ellis,
_Townley Gallery_, II., p. 106; _C.I.G._, 980; _C.I.A._, II.,
4040; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXXIII.; Wolters, No.
1019; Brueckner, _Von den griech. Grabreliefs_, p. 26.
[Sidenote: =629.=]
Sepulchral monument of Jason. A physician, Jason, an elderly bearded
man, is seated on a stool. Before him stands a boy, undergoing
examination, and clearly shown to be suffering, by his swollen
belly and wasted limbs. On the right is a vessel of peculiar form,
resembling a cupping glass, but on a scale out of all proportion to
that of the group, and not to be considered as a part of it.
The inscription runs: [Greek: Iasôn ho kai Dekmos Acharneus iatros,
k.t.l.], and contains the names of 'Jason, called also Decimus, of the
Acharnian deme, a physician,' and of other members of his family. The
relief is surmounted by a row of roughly indicated antefixal tiles.
_Obtained by Fauvel in Athens; afterwards in the Choiseul-Gouffier and
Pourtalès Collections._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10-1/2
inches. _C.I.G._, 606; _C.I.A._, III., 1445; Panofka, _Antiques du
Cabinet Pourtalès_, p. 78, pl. 26; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.
Mus._, LXXXI.; Wolters, No. 1804. On the cupping vessel see the
two references last cited.
[Sidenote: =630.=]
Sepulchral monument of Agathemeris and Sempronios Niketes. Draped male
and female figures stand to the front. The woman wears the dress of a
priestess of Isis, with a sistrum in her right hand and a vase in her
left hand.
Inscribed [Greek: Agathêmeris S Ê Aphrodeisiou ek Kol(l)yteôn.
Senprônios Nikêtês Kollyteus.] The letters [Greek: S Ê] have not been
explained.
Discovered, in 1826, _between Athens and the Piraeus_.--_Presented by
Gen. Malcolm._
Pentelic marble; height, 5 feet 6-1/2 inches; width, 3 feet.
_C.I.G._, 662_b_; _C.I.A._, III., 1760.
[Sidenote: =631.=]
Figure of a youth, a son of one Diodoros, standing, with a chlamys
wrapped about his left arm. He holds a cup (?) in the right hand and
a strigil in the left hand. Beside him, a diminutive figure of a nude
boy holding a strigil. A tree on the left.
Inscribed [Greek: ... Diodôrou, chrêste, [chaire].--_Rhenea._ _From
the Earl of Belmore's Coll._
Parian marble; height, 4 feet; width, 1 foot 8 inches. _C.I.G._,
2313.
[Sidenote: =632.=]
Upper part of a sepulchral relief. A draped male figure is seated on
a chair. Before him stands a figure also draped. In the background, a
bearded man and a woman stand one on each side of the seated person.
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