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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 2) — London, 1900

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

another male figure similarly attired, holding in his left
hand a scroll. The last figure is grouped with a female
figure, whose neck his right arm encircles. This figure
wears a long chiton and peplos, and holds in her right
hand a rudder (?). Near to hor is a female figure wearing
a long chiton and peplos; her right hand rests against
her right hip. Next to her is a seated male figure,
holding in his right hand a knotted sceptre. A mantle
is wound round the lower half of his body. The last
figure in the composition is a female wearing a long
chiton, over which is a diploi'dion. Halicarnassos.
Presented by Viscount Stratford de Bedcliffe, 1846.

Marble. Height,2 feet 8 inches; diameter, 3 feet 3 inches. Graico-Roman
Guide, II., No. 73. This altar was drawn by R. Dalton in 1749,
and published with the Mausoleum reliefs. He describes the subject
{Letter on XII. Designs of Raphael, etc., p. 32) as a marriage.
All the figures are drawn as perfect, but have probably been
restored. Another view by Dalton shows the altar standing on
open ground near the place where the Mausoleum was after-
wards found. Arch. Zeit., 18-18, p. 202.

1108. G roup of Dionysos and Ariadne. Dionysos stands on
the left; his right arm, lower limbs nearly to the hips,
and left forearm, which was a separate piece, are wanting.
Ariadne leans her right arm on his left shoulder; she
wears a long chiton girt under the breasts and a mantle.
Drapery hangs from the left shoulder of Dionysos.
Halicarnassos.

Marble. Height, 1 foot 6 inches. Graico-Roman Guide, II., No. 13G.

1109. Torso of Athene, standing. She wears a long chiton
with a diploi'dion girt under the breasts, and an aegis.
The head and left arm (which were separately attached),
and the right breast, shoulder and arm are wanting. The
back is not worked. Halicarnassos.

Coarse-grained marble. Height, 1 foot 11J inches.
 
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