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FAMILY GROUPS
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century as date. Nothing, except the somewhat pensive attitude
of the man, indicates that we have here anything but an excerpt
from the ordinary daily life of the women's apartments.
PI. XXIII. A seated lady, represented in somewhat better
perspective, gives her hand to a bearded man who wears only
the himation or cloak, and seems to hold in the left hand
a strigil. Between the two, in the background, stands a second
lady in the accustomed pensive attitude. Behind the mistress's
seat stands a young slave-girl, clad in the long-sleeved chiton
usually worn by maid-servants, her hair wrapped in a kerchief.
In the face of the seated figure is a certain eagerness or
intensity of expression, which lifts the group somewhat above
the level of everyday life ; besides which, the symbolism of the
sphinx, which is used as a support to the arm of the chair, has
a sepulchral meaning. Above the seated figure is inscribed
her name, Damasistrata, daughter of Polycleides.
PI. XXIV1. A lady, seated in the same fashion as in the
last two reliefs, stretches both her hands towards a matron who
stands before her, and who lightly touches her face with the
right hand. Behind the seated figure stands a young girl; be
neath the seat is a dove feeding. Here the expression of the
two principal persons, leaning one towards the other and tenderly
embracing one another, has an obvious significance. It is no
embrace of daily life, but one which goes before a long parting.
The frame in which this relief stands is a modern restoration.
Fig. 66 -. A young woman, identified by the inscription as
Plangon, daughter of Tolmides, falls back, evidently fainting
with illness, on a couch. She is supported by a maid-servant,
whose rank is indicated by the kerchief which binds her hair,
and by her mother, whose extended arms signify sympathy and
grief. The father, Tolmides, stands on the left in an attitude of
1 Athens Cat. No. 870.
2 Ibid. No. 749. A photograph of the relief being unsatisfactory, we copy
the engraving at p. 70 of the C. A. G.
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century as date. Nothing, except the somewhat pensive attitude
of the man, indicates that we have here anything but an excerpt
from the ordinary daily life of the women's apartments.
PI. XXIII. A seated lady, represented in somewhat better
perspective, gives her hand to a bearded man who wears only
the himation or cloak, and seems to hold in the left hand
a strigil. Between the two, in the background, stands a second
lady in the accustomed pensive attitude. Behind the mistress's
seat stands a young slave-girl, clad in the long-sleeved chiton
usually worn by maid-servants, her hair wrapped in a kerchief.
In the face of the seated figure is a certain eagerness or
intensity of expression, which lifts the group somewhat above
the level of everyday life ; besides which, the symbolism of the
sphinx, which is used as a support to the arm of the chair, has
a sepulchral meaning. Above the seated figure is inscribed
her name, Damasistrata, daughter of Polycleides.
PI. XXIV1. A lady, seated in the same fashion as in the
last two reliefs, stretches both her hands towards a matron who
stands before her, and who lightly touches her face with the
right hand. Behind the seated figure stands a young girl; be
neath the seat is a dove feeding. Here the expression of the
two principal persons, leaning one towards the other and tenderly
embracing one another, has an obvious significance. It is no
embrace of daily life, but one which goes before a long parting.
The frame in which this relief stands is a modern restoration.
Fig. 66 -. A young woman, identified by the inscription as
Plangon, daughter of Tolmides, falls back, evidently fainting
with illness, on a couch. She is supported by a maid-servant,
whose rank is indicated by the kerchief which binds her hair,
and by her mother, whose extended arms signify sympathy and
grief. The father, Tolmides, stands on the left in an attitude of
1 Athens Cat. No. 870.
2 Ibid. No. 749. A photograph of the relief being unsatisfactory, we copy
the engraving at p. 70 of the C. A. G.