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36 FRAGMENTS OF
description of stele I have seen, the lower part is broken, and it is not certain therefore whether a
broad fillet or a molding formed their termination. In the Museum is the lower part only of a
stele, part of a record, with which a liberty has been taken in applying it to terminate the present
fragment: it has the molding and fillet; and beneath the marble is formed into a large tenon for
its insertion into its pedestal.
The centre stele in the lower part of Plate xxxi. inscribed Kairippes, gives an instance of
forming in a straight line down the side of the stele, cutting through its molding and termination
above ; another example of which principle is seen in the magnificent stele of Xanthippos. The
inscription is the name of a female ; and in the Museum is also a sepulchral bas-relief of a female,
seated, with a male figure clasping her hand, and over it the inscription, Kairippe : Euphranoros
Lamptreos. The two steps dotted are copied from the numerous instances on the white vases from
Athens of stelai of this form, being delineated placed on steps. On the left hand of the Plate is
the section, shewing the molding and crowning above, perpendicular with the base, and is inge-
niously obtained by giving a sloping form to the front.
Of the sepulchral column, the circular form of which is dotted at its foot, its most remarkable
peculiarity is the tablet, the ends of which are of dovetail shape; it is slightly recessed from the
surface of the column, and has the traces of an inscription. Another instance of this formed
tablet, but slightly projecting instead of recessing, is in the beautiful apotheosis of Homer in the
Museum: the tablet is there introduced to bear the name of its sculptor, Archelaos of Priene.
The circular torus base is applied to the column, from an instance of inscribed sepulchral column
in the Museum.
PLATE XXXII.
In this is merely given a repetition of one of the sepulchral ornaments termed honeysuckles,
referred to in the preceding Plate, drawn the same dimensions as the marble in the Elgin collec-
tion ; the outer points of the enrichment, and other minutias have been carefully restored; and it
forms perhaps the most beautiful instance known. Its most especial characteristic from those
given in the last Plate are the honeysuckle ornament being double, having smaller petals near the
inner part lying on the larger and more extended leaves. From the great height of the upper
points, it was necessary to represent them in the Plate as cut at the letters A, B, and drawn at the
side, as distinguished by corresponding letters: the sections over the various parts describe their
bold projections and curves. The two other instances of this species of double ornament already
mentioned, are in the collection of Mr. Elliot at Cambridge, and of Mr. Gropius at Athens; but
although more interesting, from being more perfect, are of inferior merit in design and carving to
the Elgin example.
PLATE XXXIII. SEPULCHRAL CHAMBERS AT ATHENS, AND VASES OF
ATHENIAN POTTERY.
The vases in the present Plate present instances of two species, the one without a white ground,
the other with; the owl between two branches of olive is an example without, and the five centre
vases beneath are with, having grounds of a white composition more or less tinted.
description of stele I have seen, the lower part is broken, and it is not certain therefore whether a
broad fillet or a molding formed their termination. In the Museum is the lower part only of a
stele, part of a record, with which a liberty has been taken in applying it to terminate the present
fragment: it has the molding and fillet; and beneath the marble is formed into a large tenon for
its insertion into its pedestal.
The centre stele in the lower part of Plate xxxi. inscribed Kairippes, gives an instance of
forming in a straight line down the side of the stele, cutting through its molding and termination
above ; another example of which principle is seen in the magnificent stele of Xanthippos. The
inscription is the name of a female ; and in the Museum is also a sepulchral bas-relief of a female,
seated, with a male figure clasping her hand, and over it the inscription, Kairippe : Euphranoros
Lamptreos. The two steps dotted are copied from the numerous instances on the white vases from
Athens of stelai of this form, being delineated placed on steps. On the left hand of the Plate is
the section, shewing the molding and crowning above, perpendicular with the base, and is inge-
niously obtained by giving a sloping form to the front.
Of the sepulchral column, the circular form of which is dotted at its foot, its most remarkable
peculiarity is the tablet, the ends of which are of dovetail shape; it is slightly recessed from the
surface of the column, and has the traces of an inscription. Another instance of this formed
tablet, but slightly projecting instead of recessing, is in the beautiful apotheosis of Homer in the
Museum: the tablet is there introduced to bear the name of its sculptor, Archelaos of Priene.
The circular torus base is applied to the column, from an instance of inscribed sepulchral column
in the Museum.
PLATE XXXII.
In this is merely given a repetition of one of the sepulchral ornaments termed honeysuckles,
referred to in the preceding Plate, drawn the same dimensions as the marble in the Elgin collec-
tion ; the outer points of the enrichment, and other minutias have been carefully restored; and it
forms perhaps the most beautiful instance known. Its most especial characteristic from those
given in the last Plate are the honeysuckle ornament being double, having smaller petals near the
inner part lying on the larger and more extended leaves. From the great height of the upper
points, it was necessary to represent them in the Plate as cut at the letters A, B, and drawn at the
side, as distinguished by corresponding letters: the sections over the various parts describe their
bold projections and curves. The two other instances of this species of double ornament already
mentioned, are in the collection of Mr. Elliot at Cambridge, and of Mr. Gropius at Athens; but
although more interesting, from being more perfect, are of inferior merit in design and carving to
the Elgin example.
PLATE XXXIII. SEPULCHRAL CHAMBERS AT ATHENS, AND VASES OF
ATHENIAN POTTERY.
The vases in the present Plate present instances of two species, the one without a white ground,
the other with; the owl between two branches of olive is an example without, and the five centre
vases beneath are with, having grounds of a white composition more or less tinted.