Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of very rude style,
contained in a lunette above the inscribed panel. A male figure
reclines on a couch, with a cup in his right hand, with an uncertain
object near the cup, which may perhaps be intended to represent the
snake. A table stands before the couch with food. A woman sits on a
stool at the foot of the couch, and holds her veil with her left hand.
A small figure of a boy is at the head of the couch. On each side of
the inscribed panel is a vine branch with grapes; above are a pine
cone and two lions' heads to the front in high relief. Below are the
remains of a relief with a mounted horseman. On the right and left
edges of the relief are snakes. The inscription states that the
monument is erected by Timocrates for his wife, his son, and
himself.--_Tomis._
Limestone; height, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 8-1/2 inches.
_Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLXXVII.
[Sidenote: =743.=]
Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of the rudest style. Two
male figures, one being bearded, recline on a couch, holding cups in
their left hands. Before them is a table with food; beside it a boy
with a cup and oinochoè (?), and a girl with a phialè. A woman is
seated on a chair by the head of the couch, with the right hand raised
to her chin. A vine branch with grapes runs round the relief and the
inscribed panel. A Latin inscription states that the monument was
erected in memory of a girl, Ulpia Aurelia Valeria.--_Kertch._
Limestone; height, 7 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet.
[Sidenote: =744.=]
Late sepulchral relief. A man reclines on a couch. A woman stands at
the foot of the couch. The relief is contained in an arch-shaped
field below a pediment. Inscribed, [Greek: LYTE ...]--_Obtained by
the Euphrates Expedition_ _(1835-1837) and presented by Sir J. C.
Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control._
Marble; height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot 3 inches.
[Sidenote: =745.=]
Sepulchral relief, with a man seated, and a man standing holding a
scroll in his left hand. The two figures probably joined their right
hands. In the right and left angles are diminutive figures. On the
right is a horse's head. A tree with a snake is seen above a wall in
the background. The relief is surmounted by an entablature.
Inscribed with the metrical epitaph:
[Greek:
Oupô] nymphidiôn kradiê peplêthota lektrôn
Diphi]lon aiaktô tôd' hypenasse taphô
gnôton] te gnôtê te panaidoiê<i> Stratonikê
hô k]ai Alexandron kouron homêgenea,
ast]ois kai xeinoisi prosêneas, esthla men eipein
esth]la de kai rhexai pantas epistamenous:
Maio]genes, sy de paidas en hêrôessi phylassois
eusebe]ôn aiei chôron eperchomenos.]
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