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)

EIDER AND HORSE.

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serpent; a bird sits on a "branch. The relief is bounded
by pilasters, a circular arch with rosettes in the spandrels,
and a pediment.

Inscribed : 2epa7riW, xprjore Kal a\vTre y^alpe.

Greek marble; height, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 8J inches. This
stone was formerly at Venice, and afterwards in London, "apud
Dodd chemicum." Boeckh, C.T.G., 6990.

RELIEFS WITH RIDER AND HORSE,
HEROIFIED.

In the following reliefs the deceased person is heroified,
and represented as receiving- libations or worship. The
sepulchral serpent is frequently introduced. For a
discussion of the type, see above, p. 301.

750. Sepulchral relief of a warrior. In the centre of the
relief is a bearded male figure, heavily armed. He wears
a helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and has a spear in his left
hand. He stands near a trophy which consists of a
helmet, cuiiass, and greaves attached to the trunk of a
tree. On the left side of the trophy stands a female
figure, pouring a libation from a jug into a cup. A
serpent, coiled about the trophy, drinks from the cup. On
the right of the relief is the forepart of the warrior's
horse and the head of a groom. The relief is bounded by
two pilasters and an architrave.

The inscription on the upper and lower edges contains
a list of names of men in the dative case, with their
cities added. The persons commemorated belonged to
various parts of the Peloponnesus, Northern Greece,
Thrace and Macedonia. From the position of the inscrip-
tion, it is plain that it is independent of the relief, and
probably it is earlier.—Brought from Greece by Mr. TopJiam,