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 3) (London, 1904)

PAKT VIII.

LATER GREEK AND GRJSCO-ROMAN
RELIEFS; DECORATLVE AND ARCHI-
TECTURAL SCULPTURE.

VOTIVE RELIEFS.

The Votive Beliefs catalogued in the following section
are, with a few exceptions (such as the recently acquired
relief, No. 2155), of the later Greek or Graeco-Boman
period, and are supplementary to those described in
Vol. I., Nos. 770-817. For a general account of the
character and intention of votive reliefs, see ibid., p. 302.

Part of a votive relief. A bearded deity, Zeus, or
perhaps better, Sarapis (with doubtful traces of a modius),
is enthroned to the left, half draped, and wearing sandals ;
his throne is supported by a winged and lion-headed
Gryphon. Before it is a footstool with lions' feet. He
has a sceptre in his right hand. On the left is a female
figure, probably Isis, who stands to the front holding a
long sceptre in her left hand. The head is wanting.
She wears a long chiton and mantle, which is knotted on
her breast with an Isiac knot. Behind the figure is her
cow standing to the right, with the head turned to
the front, and a pedestal, on which are the feet of a small
statue; the upper part is lost. On the right of Sarapis was
a standing figure on a smaller scale (perhaps a Victory),
of which only the right arm holding a palm-branch now