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certain, at least, that similar figures of the four seasons are intro-
duced on the front of a sarcophagus, (1) where that subject is re-
presented. Dimensions 1 foot 3| inches, by 1 foot.
No. LII.
A bas-relief, imperfect, representing the goddess Salus, feeding a
crested serpent (2) out of a patera. The goddess is seated, and the
serpent is twined round the trunk of a tree, from a branch of which
two cast-off skins of the serpent are suspended. This bas-relief ap-
pears to have originally had another figure on the right of the tree,
the only remaining part of which figure is one of the hands.
Dimensions 11|- inches, by 1 foot 5-§- inches.
No. LIII.
A bas-relief, representing a warrior consulting the oracle of Apollo.
The warrior is seated on a rock, and his attention appears to be
deeply engaged. Apollo is standing before him, resting his right arm
upon his lyre, (3) which is of an oblong square form. The raven, (4)
which often accompanies Apollo, is perched on a quadrangular
column immediately behind the lyre. Scarcely any important en-
terprises were undertaken by the ancients, until the oracles of the
1 See Winckelmann, Monument! Antichi Inediti, tav. cxi.
* Ideo ergo simulacris eorum [scilicet JEsculapii et Salutis) junguntur figurse draconum,
quia praestant, ut humana corpora, velut infirmitatis pelle deposita, ad pristinum revires-
cant virorem, ut virescunt dracones per annos singulos, pelle senectutis exuta. Macrob.
Sat. lib. i. c. 20.
3 The form of this lyre is peculiar. There is, however, a lyre, which bears a strong
resemblance to it, in the hand of a bronze figure of Apollo, engraved in the " Museum
Etruscum" of Gorius. See vol. i. tab. xxxiii.
+ 'O xopocfc opiiv cUvtov (pxtriv lipov, x.a.i AwoAAwko? anoXaSov thxi \iyis(rii/. Tai/Tus Tot
xa) jAXVTmot; c-vpfioXtw; dyuSov opoXoyxtn rov oIvtcv. iElian. Hist. Anim. lib. i. c. 48,
Comes obscurus tripodum.—Stat. Theb. lib. iii. v. 506.
certain, at least, that similar figures of the four seasons are intro-
duced on the front of a sarcophagus, (1) where that subject is re-
presented. Dimensions 1 foot 3| inches, by 1 foot.
No. LII.
A bas-relief, imperfect, representing the goddess Salus, feeding a
crested serpent (2) out of a patera. The goddess is seated, and the
serpent is twined round the trunk of a tree, from a branch of which
two cast-off skins of the serpent are suspended. This bas-relief ap-
pears to have originally had another figure on the right of the tree,
the only remaining part of which figure is one of the hands.
Dimensions 11|- inches, by 1 foot 5-§- inches.
No. LIII.
A bas-relief, representing a warrior consulting the oracle of Apollo.
The warrior is seated on a rock, and his attention appears to be
deeply engaged. Apollo is standing before him, resting his right arm
upon his lyre, (3) which is of an oblong square form. The raven, (4)
which often accompanies Apollo, is perched on a quadrangular
column immediately behind the lyre. Scarcely any important en-
terprises were undertaken by the ancients, until the oracles of the
1 See Winckelmann, Monument! Antichi Inediti, tav. cxi.
* Ideo ergo simulacris eorum [scilicet JEsculapii et Salutis) junguntur figurse draconum,
quia praestant, ut humana corpora, velut infirmitatis pelle deposita, ad pristinum revires-
cant virorem, ut virescunt dracones per annos singulos, pelle senectutis exuta. Macrob.
Sat. lib. i. c. 20.
3 The form of this lyre is peculiar. There is, however, a lyre, which bears a strong
resemblance to it, in the hand of a bronze figure of Apollo, engraved in the " Museum
Etruscum" of Gorius. See vol. i. tab. xxxiii.
+ 'O xopocfc opiiv cUvtov (pxtriv lipov, x.a.i AwoAAwko? anoXaSov thxi \iyis(rii/. Tai/Tus Tot
xa) jAXVTmot; c-vpfioXtw; dyuSov opoXoyxtn rov oIvtcv. iElian. Hist. Anim. lib. i. c. 48,
Comes obscurus tripodum.—Stat. Theb. lib. iii. v. 506.