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)

VOTIVE BELIEFS.

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the architrave."—Found outside the Temple of Aphrodite,
Gyrene.

Marble; height, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Smith and
Porcher, pi. 76, p. 98; pi. 83, No. 19. R. C. Puckett, Dc
marmoribus tribus Cyrenaicis; Bonn, 1868, p. 16, and Plate;
Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures, Part II., No. 129 ; Overbeck,
Griech. Kunstmythologie, III., p. 496; Atlas, pi. 26, fig. 16 ;
Wolters, No. 1916; Studniczka, Kyrcne, p. 31. The inscription
is given by Kaibel, add. 842a (in some points incorrectly). For
the legends of Cyrene, see Studniczka, p. 39.

791. Fragment from the right side of a votive relief. Hera-
cles stands, nude, with the lion-skin and club on his left
arm. The head and extended right hand are wanting.
On the left is a fragment of a draped figure. The relief
was contained in pilasters, surmounted by an entablature.

Pentelic marble ; height, 2 feet \ inch ; width, 10 inches.

792. Fragment of a votive relief. A beardless male figure
stands to the front, with a chlamys on the raised left arm,
and with a cup held out in his right hand. On the right
is the right arm, and a portion of the skirt of another
figure, perhaps female, of equal scale. On the left is the
figure, much defaced, of a bearded worshipper.—Elgin
Coll.

Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot J inch ; width, 10 inches. Synopsis,
No. 361 (84) ; Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 35, fig. 3.

793. Votive relief to Demeter and Persephone (?). Two
female figures, each wearing a chiton and himation,
stand to the front. Between them is the stump of a
tree, on which the figure on the right (Persephune (?) )
leans her right elbow.— Castellani Coll.

Limestone; height, 1 foot; width, lOf inches. Restorations:—
Upper part of ground and frame of relief with top of tree and
right forearm of Persephone.