Figure of bull lying down to the right, on rough ground. The head is
worked in a very natural manner. The forms of the body are treated in
the flat manner of a bas-relief. The back has been left unfinished.
Probably the bull originally surmounted a tomb, at Athens. (Compare
Curtius and Kaupert, _Atlas von Athen_, pl. 4.)--_Brought from Greece
by C. R. Cockerell._ _Presented by Lord Hillingdon._
Pentelic marble; height, 3 feet 2-3/4 inches; length, 5 feet.
_Journ. of Hellen. Studies_, VI., pl. C., p. 32.
SEPULCHRAL VASES.
For the supposed significance of Vases as Sepulchral Monuments, see
above, p. 297.
[Sidenote: =681.=]
Plain sepulchral lekythos, in low relief.--_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 11 inches. _Synopsis_, No.
164 (276); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 34, fig. 1; Ellis, _Elgin
Marbles_, II., p. 161.
[Sidenote: =682.=]
Sepulchral lekythos, with relief. An old man, Pytharatos, stands,
clasping the hand of a seated man, Herophilos, who is also old.
Inscribed: [Greek: Pytharatos, Hêrophilos].--_Sloane Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches; diameter, 10-1/4 inches,
Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 221; _Greek Inscriptions in
Brit. Mus._, CXXVI.
[Sidenote: =683.=]
Plain sepulchral amphora of Phaidimos of Naucratis. Inscribed: [Greek:
Phaidimos Naukratitês].--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 3 feet 4-1/2 inches; diameter, 11 inches.
_Synopsis_, No. 124 (A. 51); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 33, fig. 4;
Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 164; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.
Mus._, CV.; _C.I.A._, II., 3239.
[Sidenote: =684.=]
Body of sepulchral amphora of Timophon, of Anagyrus, with ornate
flutings, and a horizontal band of interwoven fillets. Rosettes at the
base of the handles.
Inscribed: [Greek: Timophôn Timostratou Anagyrasios].--_Athens?_
_Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 11 inches; diameter, 1 foot 2
inches. For the form, cf. vase held by the wind Skiron on the
Tower of the Winds (Stuart, I., chap. III., pl. 19), and the
relief from Icaria (_American Journ. of Archaeology_, V., p. 178,
fig. 30). Published Dodwell, _Tour_, 1., p. 451; _Synopsis_
No. 263 (163); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 32, fig. 4; _Greek
Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXXX.; _C.I.G._, 585. Kumanudis
([Greek: Att. Epig.] No. 236, and p. 18) and Köhler (_C.I.A._ II.,
1850) consider the inscription more recent than the vase.
[Sidenote: =685.=]
Fragment from the top of a sepulchral amphora in relief, with patterns
of foliage.--_Formerly in Lord Elgin's Collection._
Pentelic marble; height, 11 inches. _Journ. of Hellen. Studies_,
VI., p. 43, No. 4.
[Sidenote: =686.=]
Sepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.
Inscribed: [Greek: Anaxikratês Dexiochou Athênaios].--_Athens?_ _Elgin
Coll._
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