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. 339

Inscribed : 'EAAaviW Tapcrcu's, Hellanion of Tarsus. On
the right and left ends the pedestal is adorned with
pediments. Above, it is roughly worked to fit the
plinth of a statue. — Xanthos? Presented by J. Scott
Tucker, Esq., B.N.

Bluish-grey marble; height, 2 feet J inch; width, 2 feet 7 inches.
Arch. Anzeiger, 1851, p. 128 ; Pervanoglu, Familienmaht, p. 34,
No. 113.

725. Fragment of relief, with banquet. The upper half is
wanting. A man reclines on a couch, and holds a bowl
and a rhyton (?), which were perhaps of bronze attached,
in the left and right hands respectively. A woman sits
on the end of the couch. On the right is a diminutive
male figure with the hands clasped. On the left is a girl,
who stands leaning against the foot of the couch, and
holds an ivy-leaf fan in her left hand.—Halicarnassos.

Marble ; height, 1 foot 2 inches ; width, 2 feef.

726. Eelief with banquet and serpent. A man fully draped,
reclines on a couch, with a bowl in his left hand. Before
the couch is a table with provisions. A woman is seated
on a stool by the foot of the couch. In her left hand she
extends a bowl from which a serpent is drinking. The
serpent is coiled about the trunk of a tree. On the right
is a diminutive male figure standing by a crater ; on the
left is a female figure holding a box.—Found in -a store at
Portsmouth. Probably from Smyrna.

Bluish marble ; height, 1 foot 10J inches ; width, 1 foot 6 inches.

727. Fragment of a relief with banquet and serpent. A
man reclines on a couch holding a bowl in his left hand.
A woman is seated on a chair by the head of the couch.
A snake issues from under the chair and approaches the
woman. One arm of the chair is supported by a figure of