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)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

MISCELLANEOUS ARCHITECTURAL
FRAGMENTS.

The collection in the British Museurn includes several
pieces of an architectural decorative character, which can-
not however he placed in the order of the temple or other
building, so far as is ascertained, and which seem to have
served rather as isolated pedestals, with the possible
exception of No. 1136.

1134. Square pedestal found in the temenos of the temple.
On the front and back is sculptured in relief a floral
ornament, consisting of a palmetto rising from a stem of
acanthus; on each side is another acanthus stem, term-
inating in spiral tendrils and half palmettos. This
pattern is surmounted by a bold projecting moulding,
corresponding to the abacus of a pilaster, below which is
an ornament corresponding to the ptilvinar and volute of
an Ionic pilaster. On either return face of the pedestal
is a floral ornament, consisting of a palmetto and volutes
springing from an acanthus stem. On either side stands
a Gryphon, with one paw raised. Above is the Ionic
pulvinar already mentioned. On the top of the pedestal
are two deep sinkings to serve for sockets below a large
object which stood on the pedestal, perhaps a colossal
statue. In detaching this object the marble round the
holes has been much broken away. Two sides are much
worn by exposure.

Height, 3 feet 7 inches ; width, 4 feet 0J inch each way. Antiqs. of
Ionia, IV., pi. 21, p. 34; Mausoleum Room, Guide, No. P. 25 ; Kayet
and Thomas, pi. 17, figs. 4, 5. (See ibid., fig. 1, 2, drawings of a
similar pedestal, still in the temenos, together with a lower
member adorned with four rosettes between two fillets, which
the authors place below it. Text, II., p. 24.)

1135. Square pedestal, of approximately the same form as
1134, but smaller. On each of the four faces are varieties