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pan and two loves.
[chap.
festive scene exhibited on the cornice surmounting the
part of the monument already described, may allude
to the enjoyments supposed to be reserved, in the
other world, for those who had been initiated in this.
We see the lyre and the bowl, the usual accompani-
ments of celestial banquets, according to the poetry and
religion of Greece; and which were naturally assigned
to the blessed in the Pagan Elysium108. The sculptor
has also added the rewards which Mohammed after-
wards promised to the faithful, in the female figures
seen among the revellers.
At one end of the sarcophagus we have Pan109 ex-
hibited, with two mischievous Loves, who are amusing
themselves at his expense.
The other extremity of the monument represents
a less common and much more interesting subject. The
108 Those KukXiol x0i°°'> Ka' ftovtrtKd aVow/uora, fu^iro<rta tc eifxeXfj,
Kal elXairlvaL avTOXOpi'iyriTOL, Kal aKi'ipaTOS dXviria, Kal TjfSeia dialTa, which
are found eh t6v tuiv elitrefiSiv x^Pov> according to the author of the Axio-
chus, p. 164. ed. Fisch. Compare Boeckh, on Pindar, Tom. ir.
109 If any one should be disposed to regard this figure as representing
Priapus, who was .Susei^ils Kal paSvaiSoios, he might quote, in defence of the
goat's legs and the horns which we see before us, the words of Phurnutus,
p. 204. Gale. Tdxa p.hv did tovto Kal Kepdo-Ti}v Kal StX'iXov irXdrrovTCs—
tffois 8' dv OUT09 Kai o ITptaTros e*Tj.
pan and two loves.
[chap.
festive scene exhibited on the cornice surmounting the
part of the monument already described, may allude
to the enjoyments supposed to be reserved, in the
other world, for those who had been initiated in this.
We see the lyre and the bowl, the usual accompani-
ments of celestial banquets, according to the poetry and
religion of Greece; and which were naturally assigned
to the blessed in the Pagan Elysium108. The sculptor
has also added the rewards which Mohammed after-
wards promised to the faithful, in the female figures
seen among the revellers.
At one end of the sarcophagus we have Pan109 ex-
hibited, with two mischievous Loves, who are amusing
themselves at his expense.
The other extremity of the monument represents
a less common and much more interesting subject. The
108 Those KukXiol x0i°°'> Ka' ftovtrtKd aVow/uora, fu^iro<rta tc eifxeXfj,
Kal elXairlvaL avTOXOpi'iyriTOL, Kal aKi'ipaTOS dXviria, Kal TjfSeia dialTa, which
are found eh t6v tuiv elitrefiSiv x^Pov> according to the author of the Axio-
chus, p. 164. ed. Fisch. Compare Boeckh, on Pindar, Tom. ir.
109 If any one should be disposed to regard this figure as representing
Priapus, who was .Susei^ils Kal paSvaiSoios, he might quote, in defence of the
goat's legs and the horns which we see before us, the words of Phurnutus,
p. 204. Gale. Tdxa p.hv did tovto Kal Kepdo-Ti}v Kal StX'iXov irXdrrovTCs—
tffois 8' dv OUT09 Kai o ITptaTros e*Tj.