'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 dêmos Isiada Mêtrodôrou 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 stelè, 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 passes 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 Milêsia]. 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.
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