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single frieze of ample dimensions. This is the case with an urn of
Greek marble found in 1878 near the Porta Maggiore at Rome and
perhaps derived from the columbarium of the gens Statilia1. But
the finest example of the frieze is the front of a splendid sarco-
phagus of Pentelic marble found in 1903 at Torre Nova on the via
Labicana (fig. 309)2. With regard to the prototype of the whole
series, H. von Rohden and H. Winnefeld assume a date not earlier
than the second century B.C.3, while Schreiber4, Pringsheim5 and
others argue that it represented the Alexandrine rather than the
Attic .Eleusinia6. Recently, however, J. N. Svoronos has made
a most ingenious attempt to prove that the Torre Nova sarcophagus

Fig. 309.

together with certain Athenian reliefs, coins, etc. preserves the
types of the Eleusinian triad (Demeter, Kore, Iakchos) designed
by Praxiteles for the Iakcheion at Athens7.

Rom. Mitth. 1910 xxv. 103 ff. figs. 5 f., and J. N. Svoronos in the 'E0. 'Ap%. 1911 p. 44
fig. 2).

1 Helbig Guide Class. Ant. Rome ii. 261 ff. no. iro8, first published by Countess
E. Caetani-Lovatelli in the Bull. Comm. Arch. Comun. di Roma 1879 vii. 5 ff. =ead.
Antichi monumenti ilhistrati Roma 1889 p. 23 ff. See also G. E. Rizzo in the Rom.
Mitth. 1910 xxv. 106, 130 fig. 9, pi. 7, Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel.'2 p. 546 ff. figs. 153—
155, J. N. Svoronos in the'E0. 'Apx- 1911 p.- 44 fig. 3.

2 G. E. Rizzo in the Rom. Mitth. 1910 xxv. 89—167 pis. 2—5, F. Hauser id.
PP- 273—292> J- N. Svoronos in the'E0. 'Apx- 19J1 P- 42 ff. fig. 1.

3 Von Rohden—Winnefeld op. cit. iv. 1. 8.

4 Schreiber in the Verh. d. 40. Philologenversamml. in Gorlitz 1889 p. 310.

5 Pringsheim Archdologische Beitrdge zur Geschichle des eletisinischen Cults p. 9 ff.
The vertical plume of wheat-ears worn by Demeter resembles the head-dress of Isis; and
the flowery fillet of the priest is quasi-Egyptian : etc.

6 See, however, G. E. Rizzo loc. cit. p. 140 ff.

7 J. N. Svoronos in the 'E(f>. 'Ap%. tgn pp. 39—-52.