Marble; height, 3 feet; width, 2 feet 9-1/2 inches. This
sculpture, with the following, was first published, in a strangely
perverted form, by Caylus (_Recueil d'Antiq._, II., pl. 51),
from drawings by Fourmont. Lord Aberdeen published them, with an
engraving in Walpole's _Memoirs relating to Turkey_, London,
1817, I., p. 446. See also _C.I.G._, 1467; Leake, _Travels in
the Morea_, I., p. 188, and _Peloponnesiaca_, pp. 163-165; _Greek
Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXLI.; Wolters, No. 1852; _Guide to
Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 11; Mansell, No. 728.
[Sidenote: =812.=]
Votive tablet, dedicated by a priestess called Claudia Ageta, on which
are sculptured in relief various articles of the toilet. In the centre
is a bowl inscribed with the name of the priestess, [Greek: Klau(dia)
Agêta Antipatrou, hiereia]; round it are the following objects:--On
the left of the bowl, a shell to hold unguents, two mirrors (one much
smaller than the other), a small comb, a hair-pin, a small bottle for
unguents, a small oval tray with a lid, containing a sponge, a larger
bottle, a cylindrical object, and a circular object like a stud; above
the bowl is a small elliptical box, a bottle, and an object which
appears to be a net for the hair; below are a comb, two bodkins, and
a strigil. On the right of the bowl are two pairs of shoes, two studs
linked together, a small mortar (in which is a pestle like a bent
thumb), a spoon, and a small oblong box with a lid, into which are
fitted six little circular boxes or bottles. Round these sculptured
objects runs a raised frame richly ornamented with fir-cones, ivy,
ears of corn, and pomegranates, and with a coiled snake in its lower
side.--_From Slavochori in Laconia (cf. No. 811). Presented by the
fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861._
Marble; height, 2 feet 3-1/2 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches.
Walpole's _Memoirs relating to Turkey_, 1817, I., p. 446;
_C.I.G._, 1466; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXLII.; _Guide
to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 12; Wolters, No. 1851.
[Sidenote: =813.=]
Fragment of a votive relief dedicated by a victor in a torch race. On
the right a youth, with a whisk for sprinkling, and a man stand at an
altar. The head of the man is lost. Three nude athletes, of whom two
are bearded, stand on the left conversing. Above is an entablature
with the dedicatory inscription: [Greek: Ho deina l]ampadi nikêsas,
gymnasiarchôn [anethêken]].--_Athens._ _Strangford Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 5-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1/2
inch. _C.I.G._, 257; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, XLI.;
_C.I.A._, II., 1221.
[Sidenote: =814.=]
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