Fragment of relief, with the lower part of a draped female figure,
standing on a nude prostrate figure of a boy. On the right is
a Gryphon and on the left a large serpent.--_From Amphitheatre,
Gortyna._
White marble; height, 1 foot; width, 11-1/4 inches. The Gryphon
and serpent are attributes of Sarapis on a relief at Andriakè in
Lycia. Petersen, _Reisen in Lykien_, II., p. 42, fig. 31.
[Sidenote: =795.=]
Left side of votive tablet, on which is sculptured a female figure
standing to the front, holding a bowl in her right hand: her head and
left arm from above the elbow are broken away. Some vertical object,
perhaps a censer, similar to that held by figure No. 56 in the
eastern frieze of the Parthenon, or perhaps a fold of her mantle, is
sculptured on the right.--_Athens._ _Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 7-3/4 inches; width, 6 inches. _Elgin
Room Guide_, Part II., No. F. 12.
[Sidenote: =796.=]
Fragment of relief, containing a part of a half-draped bearded man,
standing as if leaning on a staff, to the right, holding what appears
to be a flower in his right hand; and also part of the figure of a
woman holding what appears to be a pomegranate. The figures may be
those of suppliants with offerings on a votive relief.--_Cyrenè._
White marble; height, 6-1/2 inches; width, 11 inches. Smith and
Porcher, p. 107, No. 138.
[Sidenote: =797.=]
Fragment of relief containing a half-draped elderly male figure, and
a female figure wearing a long chiton. Perhaps a fragment of a votive
relief.--_Temple of Aphroditè, Cyrenè._
White marble; height, 1 foot; width, 10 inches. Smith and Porcher,
p. 104, No. 88.
[Sidenote: =798.=]
Votive relief, with two plaits of formally twisted hair, dedicated to
Poseidon by Philombrotos and Aphthonetos. The relief is bounded by two
pilasters and an entablature.
Inscribed: [Greek: Philombrotos, Aphthonêtos Deinomachou,
Poseidôni].--_From Phthiotic Thebes, in Thessaly._ _Presented by Col.
Leake, 1839._
Marble; height, 1 foot 1-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 2-1/2 inches;
Millingen, _Ancient Unedited Monuments_, Part II., pl. 16, fig.
2; Leake, _Travels in Northern Greece_, IV., p. 361; _Greek
Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CLXIII.; Daremberg and Saglio,
_Dict. des Antiqs._, _s.vv._ Coma and Donarium. On the custom
of dedicating hair by youths reaching manhood, see Daremberg and
Saglio, _loc. cit._, and _Bull. de Corr. Hellénique_, 1888, p.
479. See also _Mus. Worsleyanum_, pl. 9.
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