A woman seated to the right, on a stool, holds her veil with the left
hand, and clasps the arm of a boy standing before her. Behind the boy,
and partly embracing him, stands a woman, who holds her veil with her
right hand. On the left, behind the seated figure is a woman standing
with the left hand raised to her cheek, and with the right hand
supporting the left elbow. At the foot of the seat are two small
female figures, one standing and one sitting. These six figures are in
high relief. In the background are two men confronted in low relief;
one is bearded. Two other heads also appear to have been inserted,
and to have been afterwards obliterated. The relief is bounded by two
pilasters and an architrave, with roof tiles above.
Inscribed: [Greek: Sôpatra Pausaniou. Antimachos Pausaniou. Philopatra
Mi[r]ylou. Pausanias Andriskou.] Sopatra and Antimachos are the
children of Pausanias and Philopatra.--_Pella._
Fine-grained white marble; height, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 6 inches.
_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLXXII.
[Sidenote: =703.=]
An elderly bearded man, seated, to the left, clasps the hand of an old
man standing before him. Both figures appear to be portraits. Small
figures of boys stand at the right and left. The boy on the left holds
an uncertain object. Above are a pediment with acroteria, and
two olive wreaths, and the inscriptions [Greek: Ho dêmos Dêmoklên
Amphilochou], [Greek: Ho dêmos Dêmoklên Dêmoklêous], recording honorary decrees
to Democles, son of Amphilochos, and Democles, son of Democles. Below
is a metrical epitaph, in eight lines:
[Greek:
Ton pinyton kata panta kai exochon en poliêtais
anera gêral(e)ou termat' echonta biou
Aideô nychioio melas hypedexato kolpos
eusebeôn th' hosiên eunasen es klisiên.
mnêma d' apophthimenoio para trêchêan atarpon
touto païs kednê teuxe syn eunetidi.
xeine, sy d' aeisas Dêmokleos hyiea chairein
Dêmoklea steichois ablabes ichnos echôn.]
--_Smyrna._ _Presented by M. Duane and T. Tyrwhitt, Esqs., 1772._
Bluish Greek marble; height, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot
8-1/2 inches. Montfaucon, _Ant. Expl. Suppl._, V., p. 25;
_Archaeologia_, III., pl. 11, fig. 2; _C.I.G._, 3256; Kaibel, 237.
[Sidenote: =704.=]
A man, Exakestes, seated, clasps the hand of his wife, Metreis,
standing before him. She holds a spindle in her left hand. In the
right and left corners of the relief are small figures of a boy and
girl. The girl holds a casket. In the background of the relief are
a stelè surmounted by two cornucopiae, and a candelabrum. Above,
two wreaths and the honorary inscription, [Greek: Ho dêmos Exakestên
Androboulou. Ho dêmos Mêtrein Hermippou, Exakestou de gynaika].
The relief is surmounted by a pediment with acroteria and a
rosette.--_Perhaps from Smyrna._ _Townley Coll._
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