Fragment, perhaps from the same figure as the last.
Height, 3 inches; width, 5 inches.
[Sidenote: 43.]
Fragment of a winged, long-haired figure (?). The hair falls in a
mass on the tip of the wing.
Height, 7-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: 44.]
Fragment of a Harpy, with a large bird's leg protruding from fine
drapery; behind, a part of a wing. Compare the Harpies on the
Harpy Tomb, No. 94.
Height, 6-1/2 inches; width, 10 inches.
[Sidenote: 45.]
Fragment, with the leg of a Harpy, to the right (?).
Height, 7 inches; width, 1 foot 3-1/2 inches.
_Miscellaneous Fragments._
[Sidenote: 46.]
Fragment of the lower moulding, and two legs of a pig or ox to the
right.
Height, 7 inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.
[Sidenote: 47.]
Part of the leg of a chair. Traces of blue paint.
Height, 6 inches; width, 4-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: 48.]
Part of the same leg of a chair as No. 47, and nearly joining it.
Traces of blue paint.
Height, 5-3/4 inches; width, 3-1/2 inches.
[Sidenote: 49.]
Part of the leg and seat of a chair.
Height, 5 inches; width, 5 inches.
[Sidenote: 50.]
Part of the front leg of the chair to which No. 47 belongs.
Height, 2-1/4 inches; width, 2 inches.
[Sidenote: 51.]
Unintelligible fragment, perhaps derived from the cornice.
Length, 1 foot; height, 6 inches; width, 7 inches.
_Fragments of Lions' Heads, from the Cornice._
[Sidenote: 52.]
Left side of lion's mane, with remains showing the attachment to
the cornice.
Height, 1 foot 3 inches.
[Sidenote: 53.]
Lion's head from the cornice(?). The mouth is closed. The lower
part is wanting.
Height, 1 foot 4 inches.
[Sidenote: 54.]
Upper part of lion's head from the cornice. Red paint on the mane.
Height, 11 inches; width, 1 foot 5 inches.
[Sidenote: 55.]
Right side of lion's head, from the cornice, with eye, ear, and
part of mane.
Height, 7-1/2 inches.
OTHER FRAGMENTS FROM EPHESUS.
[Sidenote: =48.=]
[Sidenote: 1.]
Fragment of the head of an ox, apparently projecting from a
background, in high relief. The head is seen in three-quarter face
to the left.
Height, 1 foot; width, 1 foot 5 inches.
[Sidenote: 2.]
Fragment of the head of an ox, including the forehead and eyes.
Apparently the head is seen in three-quarter face to the left, as
in the preceding.
Height, 10-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 6 inches.
[Sidenote: 3.]
Fragment with part of the flank of an ox (?), springing from a
square base. Two horns intertwined (?) in relief on the side of the
fragment. If the explanation offered is correct, the animal must
have been part of an architectural member, such as occurs in the
temple of Hera at Samos (Stuart, 2nd ed., vol. iv., Kinnard on
Delos, pl. v.), or in the recently discovered bull's-head capital
from Salamis, in Cyprus (_Journ. of Hellen. Studies_, xii., p.
134).
Height, 1 foot 2-1/2 inches.
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