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merited with a combat of Greeks and Amazons, and it is therefore
probable that the monument before us belonged to a similar sar-
cophagus, and that on both the design of the lid is a continuation
of that of the front and represents the Amazons reposing after
the contest. The Amazonomachiae or battles of the Amazons
formed a favourite subject in antient art, see Museum Marbles, iv.
p. 152, and are seen on several other extant bas reliefs from sarco-
phagi, all probably of Roman times.3
This bas relief was purchased from the Camaldoli, near Fras-
cati.
Length 5 ft. 9 in. Height 1 ft.
2 To the monuments there quoted we may add the bas reliefs on the tomb of
Mausolus at Halicarnassus, engraved, Dalton, Antiquities and views in Greece and
Egypt, and those from the frieze of the temple of Diana Leucophryne at Magnesia
on the Meeander, Clarac, Musee de Sculpture, ii. 117? see Miiller, Archaologie der
Kunstj p. 663.
3 See one engraved, Bouillon, Muse"e d'Antiques, ii., bas reliefs, another in the
Louvre, engraved, Clarac, Musee de Sculpture, ii, pi. 117, A. B, another has been
recently brought from Sidon to this country by Mr. Grove, and in the Museum is
the fragment of a bas relief from Brysese in Laconia, Synopsis, 1845, p. 88, Room xi.
no..6, part probably of a sarcophagus; see also Clarac, Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 117-
merited with a combat of Greeks and Amazons, and it is therefore
probable that the monument before us belonged to a similar sar-
cophagus, and that on both the design of the lid is a continuation
of that of the front and represents the Amazons reposing after
the contest. The Amazonomachiae or battles of the Amazons
formed a favourite subject in antient art, see Museum Marbles, iv.
p. 152, and are seen on several other extant bas reliefs from sarco-
phagi, all probably of Roman times.3
This bas relief was purchased from the Camaldoli, near Fras-
cati.
Length 5 ft. 9 in. Height 1 ft.
2 To the monuments there quoted we may add the bas reliefs on the tomb of
Mausolus at Halicarnassus, engraved, Dalton, Antiquities and views in Greece and
Egypt, and those from the frieze of the temple of Diana Leucophryne at Magnesia
on the Meeander, Clarac, Musee de Sculpture, ii. 117? see Miiller, Archaologie der
Kunstj p. 663.
3 See one engraved, Bouillon, Muse"e d'Antiques, ii., bas reliefs, another in the
Louvre, engraved, Clarac, Musee de Sculpture, ii, pi. 117, A. B, another has been
recently brought from Sidon to this country by Mr. Grove, and in the Museum is
the fragment of a bas relief from Brysese in Laconia, Synopsis, 1845, p. 88, Room xi.
no..6, part probably of a sarcophagus; see also Clarac, Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 117-