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THE HARPY MONUMENT.
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style, but with great skill. To the left of the opening sits a goddess
(Demeter ?) holding a sacrificial cup in her hand for the reception of
offerings. She is attired in a long robe reaching to her feet, and is
seated on a highly ornamented chair or throne, on the arm of which
is a sphinx. Facing her, at the opposite corner, sits another very similar
but somewhat more juvenile goddess (Cora, Persephone) (fig. 43, d),
also enthroned, and holding in her hands a flower and a pomegranate.
Fig. 44.
The arms and back of the chair end in rams' and swans' heads. In
front of this very graceful figure stand three female worshippers (fig.
43, c), one behind the other, the foremost of which has no offering, but
daintily holds up her dress w ith one hand, and with the other prepares
to veil her head. It is probable that she is the chief worshipper, who
offers up a prayer for all. The second bears a flower and a pome-
granate, or a quince, and the third an egg.
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style, but with great skill. To the left of the opening sits a goddess
(Demeter ?) holding a sacrificial cup in her hand for the reception of
offerings. She is attired in a long robe reaching to her feet, and is
seated on a highly ornamented chair or throne, on the arm of which
is a sphinx. Facing her, at the opposite corner, sits another very similar
but somewhat more juvenile goddess (Cora, Persephone) (fig. 43, d),
also enthroned, and holding in her hands a flower and a pomegranate.
Fig. 44.
The arms and back of the chair end in rams' and swans' heads. In
front of this very graceful figure stand three female worshippers (fig.
43, c), one behind the other, the foremost of which has no offering, but
daintily holds up her dress w ith one hand, and with the other prepares
to veil her head. It is probable that she is the chief worshipper, who
offers up a prayer for all. The second bears a flower and a pome-
granate, or a quince, and the third an egg.
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