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)

FIGURES CLASPING HANDS.

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appear to be portraits. Small figures of boys stand at the
right and left. The boy on the left holds an uncertain
object. Above are a pediment with acroteria, and two olive
wreaths, and the inscriptions 'O At/^okX-^v'A/x0tAo^ov,

'O S^/xos ArjfjLOKXrjv A^okA^ovs, recording honorary decrees
to Democles, son of Amphilochos, and Democles, son of
Democles. Below is a metrical epitaph, in eight lines :

Tov itlvvtov Kara Trdvra koI e£o)(ov iv 7roAt7^Tats
dvepa yrjpaX{C)ov Tep/xar' Ixpvra /3lov

Aiocft) vv^lolo /xeAas {)7reSe£a.TO k6Xtto<;
ei'cre/3ecov 6' buiqv evvacrev es kXmtltjv.

fivrj/jia 8' dirocpOi/xivoLO 7rapa Tprj^rjav drapivov
tovto 7rat9 KeSvrj t€v£e crvv euvcrt'St.

£ea'e, <tv S' detcras A?y/xo/<Xeos viea ^atpeiv

■—Smyrna. Presented by M, Duane and T. Tyrwhitt, Esqs.,
1772.

Bluish Greek marble; height, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 8J
inches. Montfaucon, Ant. Expl. Suppl., V., p. 25; Archacolugia,
III., pi. 11, fig. 2; C.I.G., 3256 ; Kaibel, 237.

704. A man, Exakestes, seated, clasps the hand of his wife,
Metreis, standing before him. She holds a spindle in her
left hand. In the right and left corners of the relief are
small figures of a boy and girl. The girl holds a casket.
In the background of the relief are a stele surmounted by
two cornucopiae, and a candelabrum. Above, two wreaths
and the honorary inscription, 'O Srjpios 'E^a/ceonp/ 'AvSpo-
fiovXov. 'O 8rj[io<z ^lrjTpeiv 'Y>pp.i7nrov, 'E^aKecrrov 8k yvvouKa.
The relief is surmounted by a pediment with acroteria
and a rosette.—Perhaps from Smyrna. Townley Coll.

Greek marble ; height, 2 feet 5| inches ; width, 1 foot 4| inches.
Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 43 ; C.I.G., 3232 ; Ellis, Townley Gallery,
II., p. 165 ; Wolters, No. 1806. This relief was once in the pos-
session of Dr. Richard Mead (Mas. Meadianum, Pars alt., 1759,
p. 239).