On the lower margin is the modern inscription _Aesculapio Tarentino
Salenius Arcas_, added by some person who supposed that the relief
was a votive tablet to Aesculapius. The inscription, however, makes
it probable that the relief was obtained at Tarentum. The type of the
horse also agrees well with that on the coins of Tarentum, of about
the close of the fourth century, B.C. The relief is perhaps erected to
a father and two sons. It is also possible that the two figures of the
youth represent the same person, and that only two persons in all are
here commemorated.--_Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., 1845._
Marble, probably Pentelic; height, 1 foot 10-1/2 inches; width,
2 feet 9 inches. The upper right-hand corner is restored. P.
Gardner, _Journ. of Hellen. Studies_, V., p. 105, and plate;
Wolters, No. 1054; Roscher, _Lexicon_, p. 2575.
[Sidenote: =713.=]
Relief with banquet, serpent, and sacrifice. Two men recline on a
couch. Both have cups in their left hands. One holds up a rhyton
terminating in a ram's head; the other stretches out his right hand to
a long table which stands before the couch. A woman, seated on the end
of the couch, holds a cup in her left hand and stretches out her right
hand to the table. Below the table is a coiled serpent. On the left
of the woman is a nude youth holding up a rhyton. Beyond is a square
altar, to which a boy, who is now almost obliterated, leads a pig. He
holds a bowl in his left hand. On the left are four adult persons and
two infants, and above, the head of a horse in a frame. The relief
is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by an entablature, above which
roof-tiles are slightly indicated.--_Townley Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches.
[Sidenote: =714.=]
Fragment of relief with banquet and sacrifice. On the right is part of
the figure of a woman, who is seated at the foot of a couch, most of
which is now lost. Before her is part of a table. At the foot of the
couch is an altar which is approached by a procession of three adult
persons and four children, one of whom leads a ram. Above, a horse's
head is seen at a window. The relief is bounded by pilasters and
an entablature, above which roof-tiles are shown.--_Athens?_ _Elgin
Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 3 inches; width, 1 foot 1/2 inch.
_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 35, fig. 1; _Synopsis_, No. 279 (94);
Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_, II., p. 273; cf. Welcker, _loc. cit._,
II., pl. 13, No. 24; Pervanoglu, _Familienmahl_, p. 44, No. 174.
[Sidenote: =715.=]
Fragment of relief, which may be supposed to have been similar to the
preceding. Sacrificial procession, including a man, of whom but little
remains, a woman, two children, and one draped figure, whose
sex cannot be distinguished, carrying a large vessel on the
head.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._
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