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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

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CATALOGUE OF

SCULPTURE.

remains. The original width of the relief is uncertain,
but it was probably completed with a group of wor-
shippers, and must be assigned to the Hellenistic period.
—Rhodes. Presented by F. T. Palgrave, Esq., 1891.

Parian marble. Height, 11J inches; width, 1 foot 2J inches. Taken
from a wall, into which it had been built, in Rhodes. Perdrizet,
Bull, de Corr, Hellenique, XXIII., p. 559; pi. 3, fig. 1; Amelung,
Roemische Mitt., XVI., p. 258. Compare the relief at Munich,
ibid., p. 260.

2151. Cippus, containing a votive relief within a panel. A
figure of Zeus, bearded, and with long hair falling on his
shoulders, pours a libation from a bowl on an altar. He
wears a long chiton, mantle and shoes, and carries a
sceptre. Before the altar is a bull, fallen on its knees,
and behind is a gnarled trunk of a tree. A moulding-
passes round the top of the cippus.

Inscribed with a subscription list: UoTafxavrov S-^vapia
Svo' I UoTafxdvTOv yjjLepo7r6criov' | 'EppoxparT^?) MtStov Spa(^pas)

o'- | NeiKavSpos McvioXcOkou fj/j.epoTr6criov |.....lSlkos AtoSwpou

| epL<f)ov. The word -rj^epoTrocnov = drink for one day. This
is one of a group of reliefs of which certain members are
dated about the year 176, of ah era which is doubtful. If
the era is that of Bithynia, they would be about 121 b.c.
If it is that of Sulla, about 91 a.d. According to the
style, the earlier date is preferable.—Cyzicus. Presented
by A. van Branteghem, Esq., 1890.

Marble. Height, 3 feet 5£ inches ; width, 1 foot 3£ inches. Murray
Rev. Arch., 3rd S., XVII. (1891), p. 11 ; Perdrizet, Bull, de Corr
Helle'nique, XXIII., p. 594; pi. 5, fig. 2; Amelung, Roemische
Mittheilungen, XVI., p. 262.

2152. Votive relief. Zeus and a goddess (?). A headless male
figure is seated to the front on a stool with cushion and
ornate legs. His left arm rests on his thigh, and his
right forearm is wanting. He is draped in a close-fitting
 
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