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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
963. Architectural fragment of a cornice, with a triple egg
and tongue moulding. The lower edge is cut, as if to
surmount a pilaster.
Xanthian limestone. Height, 1 foot J inch; width, 2 feet 9 inches.
964. Portion of frieze, from the gateway, of the time of
Vespasian. The frieze consists of metopes with busts in
relief, and triglyphs. On the left is a bust of Apollo,
formerly laureate with a metal wreath and draped, with
curls falling on his shoulders, and wearing a quiver.
On the right is a bust of Artemis, similarly treated,
with diadem and quiver.—Xanthos.
Xanthian limestone. Height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches.
Synopsis, Lycian Room, No. 172. Fellows, Lycia, pi. facing
p. 177. This slab had fallen from its place. The central slab,
which has similar metopes (one is drawn in Fellows' Lycia, I.e.),
was left in situ. ScharPs drawing in the Xanthian Portfolio
explains a confusion in the inscriptions assigned to this site,
which is pointed out, but not rightly explained, by Benndorf
(Reisen, I., p. 91). Immediately under the triglyphs is an
inscription—
K~]a\ 6 drjfxos Bta 2e£rrrou Mapiclov T\pt'iaKov tto
. . . TeXtwaavTOS to tpyov.
In 1. 1. Fellows reads OYH . n" . . N . . 2 . . TH [Lycia, p. 409,
No.l60;G/.ff. 4271]; Scharf reads____OT____JQ; and Benndorf
(Rciscn, p. 91) did not observe a first line. By a comparison of
this inscription with another (Fellows, Lycia, p. 409, No. 159;
C.T.G. 4270), Bailie produced an amended version of no inde-
pendent authority (Bailie, III., p. 96 ; C.I.G. 4271 add.; cf.
Waddington-Le Bas, No. 1254).
Whatever may be the correct reading of the first line, the name of the
legatus pro pratore, Sextus Marcius Priscus, proves that the arch
is of the time of Vespasian (cf. the inscription mentioned above,
Lycia, No. 159 ; also Journ. of Hellcn. Studies, X., p. 73).
Note.—For the remainder of the Lycian collection of sculpture in the
British Museum, see Vol. I. of this catalogue, Nos. 90-98
(Archaic Sculpture); Nos. 629,724 (Sepulchral Reliefs); Nos.
760-766 (Casts of Reliefs from Tombs).
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
963. Architectural fragment of a cornice, with a triple egg
and tongue moulding. The lower edge is cut, as if to
surmount a pilaster.
Xanthian limestone. Height, 1 foot J inch; width, 2 feet 9 inches.
964. Portion of frieze, from the gateway, of the time of
Vespasian. The frieze consists of metopes with busts in
relief, and triglyphs. On the left is a bust of Apollo,
formerly laureate with a metal wreath and draped, with
curls falling on his shoulders, and wearing a quiver.
On the right is a bust of Artemis, similarly treated,
with diadem and quiver.—Xanthos.
Xanthian limestone. Height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches.
Synopsis, Lycian Room, No. 172. Fellows, Lycia, pi. facing
p. 177. This slab had fallen from its place. The central slab,
which has similar metopes (one is drawn in Fellows' Lycia, I.e.),
was left in situ. ScharPs drawing in the Xanthian Portfolio
explains a confusion in the inscriptions assigned to this site,
which is pointed out, but not rightly explained, by Benndorf
(Reisen, I., p. 91). Immediately under the triglyphs is an
inscription—
K~]a\ 6 drjfxos Bta 2e£rrrou Mapiclov T\pt'iaKov tto
. . . TeXtwaavTOS to tpyov.
In 1. 1. Fellows reads OYH . n" . . N . . 2 . . TH [Lycia, p. 409,
No.l60;G/.ff. 4271]; Scharf reads____OT____JQ; and Benndorf
(Rciscn, p. 91) did not observe a first line. By a comparison of
this inscription with another (Fellows, Lycia, p. 409, No. 159;
C.T.G. 4270), Bailie produced an amended version of no inde-
pendent authority (Bailie, III., p. 96 ; C.I.G. 4271 add.; cf.
Waddington-Le Bas, No. 1254).
Whatever may be the correct reading of the first line, the name of the
legatus pro pratore, Sextus Marcius Priscus, proves that the arch
is of the time of Vespasian (cf. the inscription mentioned above,
Lycia, No. 159 ; also Journ. of Hellcn. Studies, X., p. 73).
Note.—For the remainder of the Lycian collection of sculpture in the
British Museum, see Vol. I. of this catalogue, Nos. 90-98
(Archaic Sculpture); Nos. 629,724 (Sepulchral Reliefs); Nos.
760-766 (Casts of Reliefs from Tombs).