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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

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366 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

794. Fragment of relief, with the lower part of a draped
female figure, standing on a nude prostrate figure of a boy.
On the right is a Gryphon and on the left a large serpent.—■
From Amphitheatre, Gortyna.

White marble; height, 1 foot; width, \ \\ inches. The Gryphon and
serpent are attributes of Sarapis on a relief at Andriake in
Lycia. Petersen, Reisen in Lijkicn, II., p. 42, fig. 31.

795. Left side of votive tahlet, on which is sculptured a
female figure standing to the front, holding a bowl in her
right hand : her head and left arm from above the elbow
are broken away. Some vertical object, perhaps a censer,
similar to that held by figure No. 56 in the eastern frieze of
the Paithenon, or perhaps a fold (if her mantle, is sculp-
tured on the right.—Athens. Inwood Cull.

Pentelic marble; height, 7f inches; width, 6 inches. Elgin Room
Guide, Part II., No. F. 12.

796. Fragment of relief, containing a part of a half-diaped
bearded man, standing as if leaning on a staff, to the
right, holding what appears to be a flower in his right
hand ; and also part of the figure of a woman holding what
appears to be a pomegranate. The figures may be those
of suppliants with offerings on a votive relief.— Cyrene.

White marble; height, 6J inches; width, 11 inches. Smith and
Poreher, p. 107, No. 138.

797. Fragment of relief containing a half-draped elderly
male figure, and a female figure wearing a long chiton.
Perhaps a fragment of a votive relief.— Temple of Aphrodite,
Cyrene.

White marble ; height, 1 foot; width, 10 inches. Smith and Poreher,
p. 104, No. 38.

798. Votive relief, with two plaits of formally twisted hair,
dedicated to Poseidon by Philombrotos and Aphthonetos.
The relief is bounded by two pilasters and an entablature.
 
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