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.

341

hand. A table with cups stands before the couch.—Thasos.
Strangford Coll.

Marble ; height, 9 inches; width, 1 foot 2 inches.

732. Fragment of relief with banquet. A male figure, whose
legs alone are preserved, reclines on a couch. Before him
is a table with food. A woman, whose lower limbs
are alone preserved, is seated on a chair at the foot of the
couch. A small draped figure of a youth is on the right,
and there are remains of the figure of a girl on the left.

Marble ; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches.

733. Eelief with banquet. A man, bearded, reclines on a
couch, and holds up a rhyton in his right hand. Before
him is a table with food. A woman is seated on the
couch, and raises with the left hand a fold of her pej^los.
On the left a boy draws wine from a large crater. The
head of a horse is seen at an opening. A round shield
hangs on the wall. The relief is bounded by two pilasters
and an entablature.—Excavated by 3Ir. Wood at Ephesus.

Ephesian marble ; height, 1 foot 1\ inches; width, 2 feet 2^ inches.

734. Eelief with banquet. A portrait figure of an old man,
whose head is bound with a taenia, reclines on a couch
with a two-handled cup in his left hand. Before him is
a table with pomegranate fruits and other food. A
portrait figure of a woman is seated near the foot of
the couch, with her left hand raised to her veil. A boy
in a short tunic stands on the right, and holds a kyathos
for drawing wine ; a rhyton and a vase are seen above his
head. A girl kneels on the left below the seat of the
woman ; a dog lies between the legs of the table.—Townley
Coll.

Greek marble; high relief. The upper part is wanting. Height
1 foot 8J inches ; width, 1 foot 6 inches. Mus. Marbles, X.,
pi. 49, fig. 2.