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VOTIVE RELIEFS.
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a spreading socket. They are followed by a company
of eight nude youths, grouped in couples, and wearing
fillets. These are treated with much grace and variety
of pose. The first youth carries some object, perhaps a
torch-handle.
The relief is bounded by pilasters, and surmounted by
an architrave with acroterial ornaments.
The worship of the Thracian goddess Artemis Bendis
was introduced into Attica and located at the Peiraeus
towards the close of the oth century b.c. The ceremonies
included a torch-race (see Plato, Republic, p. 328), in which
racing horsemen, squad contending against squad, passed
the torch from one to another. There is, however, no
suggestion of horses on the relief.
A relief of the years 329-328 b.c. (at Ny-Carlsberg)
shows the goddess in the same form. The inscription
records the award of wreaths to the two managers
(iTTifjLeXrjTai), who probably correspond to the two elderly
figures shown in the present relief. The date is probably
about the middle of the 4th cent. b.c.—Found at the Peiraeus.
Pentelic marble. Height, 1 foot inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches.
Bought, 1895. Mansell, Xo. 1473 ; Arch. Anzeiger, 1896,
p. 143; Hart wig, Bendis, pi. 2, p. 13 ; C. Smith, Class. Bev.,
XIII., p. 230; Trendelenburg, Bendis (1898); Berlin. Phil.
Wochenschrift, 1898, p. 1227; 1899, pp. 90, 155. The form
of the spear has been disputed. There is no indication of more
than one, though the epithet §l\oyxos (probably " with two
spears ") is said to have been applied to the goddess (Cratinos
in Hesychius. s. v.). There is no indication of a continuation in
sculpture or painting above the hand, and there is no indication
of point or butt on the ground. There is, however, a suggestion
of a swelling, as for the point, under and within the hand. For
the honorary inscriptions cf. Bull, de Corr. Ifellenique, XXIII.,
p. 370.
Fragment of a votive relief. Within a sunk panel are
the feet of a male figure, standing to the front, resting on
the right foot, with the left foot drawn back. Inscribed
Q 2
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a spreading socket. They are followed by a company
of eight nude youths, grouped in couples, and wearing
fillets. These are treated with much grace and variety
of pose. The first youth carries some object, perhaps a
torch-handle.
The relief is bounded by pilasters, and surmounted by
an architrave with acroterial ornaments.
The worship of the Thracian goddess Artemis Bendis
was introduced into Attica and located at the Peiraeus
towards the close of the oth century b.c. The ceremonies
included a torch-race (see Plato, Republic, p. 328), in which
racing horsemen, squad contending against squad, passed
the torch from one to another. There is, however, no
suggestion of horses on the relief.
A relief of the years 329-328 b.c. (at Ny-Carlsberg)
shows the goddess in the same form. The inscription
records the award of wreaths to the two managers
(iTTifjLeXrjTai), who probably correspond to the two elderly
figures shown in the present relief. The date is probably
about the middle of the 4th cent. b.c.—Found at the Peiraeus.
Pentelic marble. Height, 1 foot inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches.
Bought, 1895. Mansell, Xo. 1473 ; Arch. Anzeiger, 1896,
p. 143; Hart wig, Bendis, pi. 2, p. 13 ; C. Smith, Class. Bev.,
XIII., p. 230; Trendelenburg, Bendis (1898); Berlin. Phil.
Wochenschrift, 1898, p. 1227; 1899, pp. 90, 155. The form
of the spear has been disputed. There is no indication of more
than one, though the epithet §l\oyxos (probably " with two
spears ") is said to have been applied to the goddess (Cratinos
in Hesychius. s. v.). There is no indication of a continuation in
sculpture or painting above the hand, and there is no indication
of point or butt on the ground. There is, however, a suggestion
of a swelling, as for the point, under and within the hand. For
the honorary inscriptions cf. Bull, de Corr. Ifellenique, XXIII.,
p. 370.
Fragment of a votive relief. Within a sunk panel are
the feet of a male figure, standing to the front, resting on
the right foot, with the left foot drawn back. Inscribed
Q 2