Part of a relief, from the upper part of an inscribed stelè. Athenè stands on the left, and with her right hand she crowns a draped male figure, apparently a bearded man, who raises his right arm as if in adoration. Athenè wears a helmet and chiton with diploïdion, and places her left hand on her shield, of which the inner side is shown. The spear of Athenè rests against her left shoulder, with its end on the ground inside the shield. The relief is bounded by pilasters, with entablature and roof-tiles. The figure of Athenè (like Nos. 771, 772) is roughly copied from the Athenè Parthenos of Pheidias. Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 9-3/4 inches. [Sidenote: =774.=] Relief: Apollo receiving a libation from Victory. Apollo wears the dress of a Kitharoedos, namely, a long chiton with sleeves, over which is a diploïdion girt at the waist; a mantle hangs from his left shoulder; his long hair is looped up in a broad plait behind, under a diadem; a single long plait falls over each ear; he holds out a bowl with his right hand, while his left strikes his lyre, which is supported by a broad band passing over the left wrist; from the lyre hang two ends of ribbons; he wears armlets and sandals. The Victory is clad in a long chiton, over which is a diploïdion girt at the waist; she wears bracelets and armlets. Both figures stand with the heels raised from the ground: at the side of the Victory is a circular altar, on which is sculptured in relief a winged female figure between two festoons. This subject occurs on several other reliefs in marble, for one of which see below, No. 775, and also on a terracotta relief in the British Museum. (For a list, see Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_, ii., p. 37.) All these sculptures exhibit the same peculiar style of affected archaism, known as archaistic. On a comparison of the reliefs in which this subject occurs, it will be seen that the one here described is part of a larger composition in which Leto and Artemis follow behind Apollo, and a temple is introduced in the background; a tripod, a statue on a pedestal, the _omphalos_, a plane tree, and the Horae on the altar also occur as accessories. It seems probable that these reliefs are votive, and that in selecting as their subject the victory of Apollo in a musical contest, the dedicator indirectly commemorated his own triumph in a similar exercise of skill.--_Hamilton Coll., 1772._ Marble; height, 2 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Restored: the greater part of the body of Apollo, lower part of body of Victory, column on left, and lower part of column on right. The parts restored have been copied from more perfect marbles in the Villa Albani. _Mus. Marbles_, II., pl. 13; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 113; _Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, I., No. 169; Wolters, No. 427; Welcker, _Alte Denkmaeler_, II., p. 41. [Sidenote: =775.=]