Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 4-3/4 inches; width, 9-1/2 inches.
_Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 36, fig. 3; _Synopsis_, No. 189 (284);
_Guide to Elgin Room_, Part II., No. F. 6.
[Sidenote: =716.=]
Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, who is half draped,
reclines on a couch with a bowl in his right hand. He wears a _polos_
and in type resembles a divinity. Before him is a table with food.
A woman is seated on the foot of the couch and has a cup in her left
hand. On the right a youth draws wine from a crater. On the left a
man, woman, and boy approach as worshippers. The relief is bounded
by two pilasters, surmounted by an entablature, above which are
roof-tiles.--_Townley Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 9-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1-3/4 inches.
Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 167; Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_,
II. p. 278.
[Sidenote: =717.=]
Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, half draped and
wearing a _polos_ as in the last relief, reclines on a couch. He has
a cup in the left hand and a rhyton in the right hand. Before him is
a table with food. A woman is seated at the foot of the couch, with a
cup in her left hand. On the left a boy stands beside a jar of wine,
which is raised on a pedestal. At the left a woman, and two smaller
figures approach as worshippers. Above, the head of a horse is seen
looking through an opening. The relief is bounded by two pilasters,
surmounted by an entablature, above which are roof-tiles.--
_Halicarnassos._ _Presented by H.M. Sultan Abdul Medjid to Viscount
Stratford de Redcliffe, and by him presented to the British Museum._
Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.
[Sidenote: =718.=]
Fragment of relief. A nude male figure who seems to be wearing a
Phrygian cap, and holds some object in his right hand, stands with
his left hand over an altar. On the right side of the altar was a male
figure making a libation. Only the right hand with the saucer, and the
right foot remain. On the left a bearded man stands, with his right
hand raised.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.
_Synopsis_, No. 380 (101); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 37, fig. 1.
[Sidenote: =719.=]
Group of persons about to sacrifice; from the left side of a
sepulchral relief. On the right of the fragment is a man with a large
amphora, turned to the right. Behind him are two men and two women,
all standing as worshippers.--_Mytilene._
Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 11 inches. Conze, _Lesbos_, p.
10, Note 3, No. 1.
[Sidenote: =720.=]
Fragment of relief with banquet and serpent. A man reclines on a couch
and pours a libation from a bowl. Before the couch is a table with
food. A serpent is coiled beneath the table and stretches its head
towards the bowl. On the left is the hand holding a casket (_pyxis_)
of a woman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch. The relief
is bounded by pilasters, an entablature and a roof.
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