Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

to Dodwell, it was ' found by the excavators of the Earl
of Elgin, near the Treasury of Atreus.'—Elgin Coll.

Hard green limestone; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 3 feet 6
inches. Stuart, 2nd ed., IV., pi. 4, fig. 9 ; cf. pi. 5; Dodwell,
Tour, II., p. 232 ; Murray, I., p. 39 ; Wolters, No. 2.

Fig. 1.—Restored Capital from the ' Treasury of Atreus ' (after Puchstein).

3. Fragment from the 'Treasury of Atreus' at Mycenae.
This fragment, which is decorated with a portion of a
wave pattern enclosed by two mouldings meeting at an
acute angle, is a part of one of the columns that flanked
the entrance to the building. These columns were deco-
rated with an elaborate system of ornament, composed of
zigzag bands of the wave pattern, best understood on
reference to drawings of the complete column {cf. fig. 1).
The tubular drill has been used as in No. 1.—Presented by
the Institute of British Architects, 1843.

Hard green limestone; height, 11 inches; width, 9 inches. For
drawings of the restored column, with its capital (formerly
taken for the base) compare Stuart, 2nd ed., IV., pi. 4, figs. 1-5,