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safely assumed that this frieze must on account of its
advanced style he later than the end of the Peloponnesian
War, B.C. 404. With regard to the particular battles
commemorated in both friezes, nothing positive can be
proved. If we assume that all the four sides of the
smaller frieze relate to the same battle, then the conjecture
of Overbeck that the battle represented is that of Plataea,
in which Greeks fought against Persians with Hellenic
allies, is not unworthy of consideration. In that case the
shield suspended from the tree in slab C. 1 may mark the
spot where a trophy was erected, or, as Kekule suggests, may
have reference to the golden shields dedicated by the
Athenians at Delphi after the battle of Plataea. The
figures on the balustrade, again, may commemorate a
number of victories by sea and land, and Kekule has
made an ingenious conjecture that these sculptures com-
memorate the successes of Alkibiades at Abydos, Kyzikos,
and Byzantium, and that they were dedicated on his
triumphal return from exile, B.C. 407. On the whole it
seems more probable that these sculptures were executed
in commemoration of particular battles than that their
subjects are only to be understood as containing a general
allusion to Athenian victories.
Benndorf, Festschrift : fiber das Cultusbild der Athena Kike, Wien,
1879 ; Friederichs, Bausteine, p. 187 ; Ellis, E. M., II., p. 60,
Nos. 158-161 ; Prestel, Der Tempel der Athena Kike, Mainz,
1873.
D.—CASTS FROM FRIEZE OF CHORAGIC
MONUMENT OF LYSIKRATES.
The Choragic Monument of Lysikrates is a small
circular edifice encircled by Corinthian engaged columns,
which still stands in its original position at Athens below
the Eastern side of the Akropolis, and a little to the East
of the theatre of Dionysos. Here in antiquity was a
safely assumed that this frieze must on account of its
advanced style he later than the end of the Peloponnesian
War, B.C. 404. With regard to the particular battles
commemorated in both friezes, nothing positive can be
proved. If we assume that all the four sides of the
smaller frieze relate to the same battle, then the conjecture
of Overbeck that the battle represented is that of Plataea,
in which Greeks fought against Persians with Hellenic
allies, is not unworthy of consideration. In that case the
shield suspended from the tree in slab C. 1 may mark the
spot where a trophy was erected, or, as Kekule suggests, may
have reference to the golden shields dedicated by the
Athenians at Delphi after the battle of Plataea. The
figures on the balustrade, again, may commemorate a
number of victories by sea and land, and Kekule has
made an ingenious conjecture that these sculptures com-
memorate the successes of Alkibiades at Abydos, Kyzikos,
and Byzantium, and that they were dedicated on his
triumphal return from exile, B.C. 407. On the whole it
seems more probable that these sculptures were executed
in commemoration of particular battles than that their
subjects are only to be understood as containing a general
allusion to Athenian victories.
Benndorf, Festschrift : fiber das Cultusbild der Athena Kike, Wien,
1879 ; Friederichs, Bausteine, p. 187 ; Ellis, E. M., II., p. 60,
Nos. 158-161 ; Prestel, Der Tempel der Athena Kike, Mainz,
1873.
D.—CASTS FROM FRIEZE OF CHORAGIC
MONUMENT OF LYSIKRATES.
The Choragic Monument of Lysikrates is a small
circular edifice encircled by Corinthian engaged columns,
which still stands in its original position at Athens below
the Eastern side of the Akropolis, and a little to the East
of the theatre of Dionysos. Here in antiquity was a