Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

CASTS FROM LYCIAN TOMBS.

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cloaks, are thrusting with spears. By the rider on the
right is the Lycian inscription Izraza.

Comhat of a hoplite and a horseman. The hoplite
is fully armed, except for a shield ; he holds out drapery
on his left arm, and thrusts with a long spear at the
horseman, who is falling backwards from the horse.
Behind the hoplite is the Lycian inscription Izraza.

(c) Combat of two hoplites, fully armed.

(d)

View of a city on rocky ground, with walls and
towers. Six warriors are seen climbing the rocks. Two
of the defenders are on the towers, while others appear to
be defending a kind of outwork.

In the upper course, the subjects are:—
(«) Single armed figure, standing. Logs alone remain,
(o) Nude athlete, attended by a youth with a strigil.

(c) Two armed figures, moving to right.

(d) Plain.

Height of lower course, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch, and
2 feet 7 inches; height of upper course incomplete; width
2 feet 2 inches. Fellows, Travels, p. 499 ; Spratt and Forbes, I.,
p. 35. Synopsis, Lycian lloom, No. 157, Benndorf, Reisen, I.,
pp. 139, 14-4, figs. 85-86. It is not clear why Beundoif remarks
(I.e., p. 139) that 'the cast is not rightly put together; one of
the upper surfaces is without reliefs.'

LATER SCULPTURES FROM XANTHOS.
956. Pedestal with reliefs.

(a) Figures standing to the front of Sarapis and Isis.
Sarapis has long hair, a beard and a modius. He wears
a long tunic girt with a broad belt, and a mantle. He has
a cornucopia with grapes and fruit, and the horns of the
solar disk on the left arm, and appears to have held a
patera in his right hand. Isis wears a long chiton
with diploidion and shoes, and has a mural crown. She
has a similar cornucopia in the left hand, with a single
ray projecting from it, and held a rudder in the right