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in Cyprus, with emerald eyes so bright that the fish were
terrified until the stones were changed.

Marble. Length, 9 feet 7 inches; height, 6 feet. Newton, Hist.
Disc, I., pis. 61-66 ; II., pp. 480-511; Travels and Discoveries,
II., p. 214; Essays, p. 82; Overbeck, Gr. Plastik,ith. ed., II.,
p. 189; Liibke, Hist. Sculpt., I., p. 203 ; Mansell, No. 724; Elgin
Room Guide, II., p. 57. For Conon's victory see Xenophon,
Hellenica, IV., 3; Diod. Sic, XIV., 83.

SCULPTURES FROM THE TOMB OP
LYKAETHION.

For an account of the Tomb, see above, p. 202.

1351. Roman lady. Figure standing on the right foot, with the
left leg drawn back. She wears a long chiton and mantle.
In her left hand are ears of corn and a poppy-head, the
well-known attributes of Ceres. The upper part of the
figure is much mutilated. The head-dress is that which
prevailed at Rome in the time of Domitian, when the
hair was arranged over the forehead in a double row of
formal curls. When found, the lower part of the figure
was standing in its original position within an alcove on
a marble pavement. The upper part was found in several
pieces, and appeared to have been broken by the fall of
the vault above. Three sarcophagi of the Roman period
were found in the same sepulchral chamber. From the
character of the head-dress, and the fact that this statue
was found within a sepulchral chamber, it is more
probable that it represents some lady of the Koman
period in the character of Ceres than the goddess
herself.—From the Tomb of Lijltaetliion, Cnidos.

Marble. Height, 6 feet 4 inches. Newton, Mist. Disc, II., p, 512 ;
Grseco-Boman Guide, II., No. 70.

1352. Draped male terminal figure. The upper part of the
body is wrapped in a mantle, and the left arm crosses the