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)

THE SEPULCHRAL BANQUET.

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right hand, stands with his left hand over an altar. On
the right side of the altar was a male figure making a
libation. Only the right hand with the saucer, and the
right foot remain. On the left a bearded man stands,
with his right hand raised.—Athens? Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.
Synopsis No. 380 (101) ; Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 37, fig. 1.

719. Group of persons about to sacrifice ; from the left side of
a sepulchral relief. On the right of the fragment is a man
with a large amphora, turned to the right. Behind him
are two men and two women, all staiiding as worshippers.
—Mytilene.

Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 11 inches. Conze, Lesbos, p. 10,
Note 3, No. 1.

720. Fragment of relief with banquet and serpent. A man
reclines on a couch and pours a libation from a bowl.
Before the couch is a table with food. A serpent is coiled
beneath the table and stretches its head towards the bowl.
On the left is the hand holding a casket (j>yxis) of a
woman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch.
The relief is bounded by pilasters, an entablature and a
roof.

Marble; height, 1 foot 1 inch; width, 9 inches.

721. Belief with a female figure of the type of the banquet
reliefs. A woman seated, wearing a lofty head-dress
(jpolos), holds an ivy-leaf fan in her left hand, and with
the right hand appears to be offering a cup to a serpent.
—Athens ? Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble ; height, 2 feet 3J inches; width, 1 foot 5| inches.
Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 38, fig. 3; Synopsis, So. 278 (238) ; Ellis,
Elgin Marbles, II., p. 127, No. 278.

722. Belief with banquet. A man reclines on a couch with
a cup in his left hand. Before him is a table with

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