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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and a girl (the upper part alone seen), who holds a dish.
The relief is hounded by two Doric columns and a pedi-
ment. The monument was erected hy one Alexander
for his mother, his wife Philippa, and himself. Penalties
are prescribed for persons violating the tomb.

Inscribed : 'AXi^avSpos 'AXe^dvSpov B€i0wiev[s] kou NeiKO-
/xT^Seus £wv iavT(S KaTe<x/<eijacr[a] to p.vrjpielov koX Trj [xrjrpi /xov
Kai rfj cri'/xyStw <j?i\Linra Hovticlvov. kcu /3ovXop,e fxeTa to
TeOrjvaL ets tt]v ko.fxa.pav /x^SeVa CTepov avot^c et 8e 7rapa

raura 7roi^<xei Suicrei is TOV (plo~Kov Sqv. /3tcp kou is ttjv ttoXlv
Srjv. (3$. xaLP^T€-—Smyrna. Presented by 31. Duane and T.
Tyrwhitt, Esqs., 1772.

Marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches ; width, 1 foot 8 inches. Archaeo-
logia, III., pi. 11, fig. 3; C.I.G., 3265; Perranoglu, Familien-
mahl, p. 45, No. 180.

738. Sepulchral relief. Two men recline on a couch; a
woman is seated on a stool at the head of the couch. The
inscribed metrical epitaph, in which one Cassiodoros relates
his death at the age of twenty-four, has no appropriateness
to the relief.

Niitic/x-Siou 6aXdp.OLO Xlttwv SvcnreiOia KOcrp.ov
ko1 yoviwv cuk[t]pojj/ $a,Kpv6evTa Sollov

Ket/xat es [aijJx/XTjpcws xal dA.a/x7T€as Aioos ewas
€lko<j[_l rjecrcrap' f^wv KacrcrioSojpos (.Tfj-

a7r[poi]S-/)s voC<t[o]s pe crvvrjpTrao-v llovvoIti^v Be
l']7?7r[t']aX01/ K°vp'1v Wjtw v7r -rjiXiov.—Antioch ?

Marble; height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches. Drum-
mond's Travels (1754), pi. facing p. 229, fig. 15 (very rudely
drawn), and p. 237 ; G'.f.G., 4466 ; Kaibel, 431. In Drummond's
time the stone was " in the Library of the right worshipful the
Levant Company " at Aleppo.

739. Stele with reliefs in two panels. In the upper panel is
a figure on a couch holding a bunch of grapes- The upper