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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
Icarios (No. 2190). Possibly in this case we are intended
to imagine the scene as being enacted inside the temple
thus slightly indicated. All the figures in this row can
be identified, as their names are inscribed immediately
under them. Homer, OMHPOZ, is seated near the left of
the scene, on a throne with a footstool. He is a venerable
bearded figure, wearing a long chiton with short sleeves,
over which is a mantle. The poet holds a scroll in his
right hand, and a sceptre with a lotus-top in his left
hand. His throne is supported by two female figures,
kneeling one at each side, IAIAZ, the Iliad, and OAYZZEIA,
the Odyssey. Iliad wears a long chiton, girt at the
waist. In her right hand she holds a sheathed sword, to
indicate that the subject of the Iliad is war; her left
hand clasps the leg of the throne of Homer. Odyssey,
of whom the head and left arm only are visible, holds up
the ornament from the stern of a ship (aplustre) as
a symbol of navigation. In front of the footstool of
Homer is a roll; at the left end of the roll is a mouse,
and at the right end, where the surface is now broken
away, there was probably a frog, in allusion to the
" Batracho-myo-machia," or Battle of Frogs and Mice, of
which the authorship was ascribed to Homer. Behind
the poet stand, side by side, XPONOZ, " Time," represented
by a winged male figure, apparently a portrait, who holds
a roll in each hand; and [OI]KOYMENH, "the inhabited
Earth," a female figure wearing a long chiton with
diploi'dion, and with her head veiled and surmounted by
a calathos; she crowns Homer Avith a wreath. In front
of the Poet is a kindled altar inscribed AA, decorated
with festoons and (probably) an ox-skull, beside which
stands a Carian bull with a hump. On the left of the
altar is MYOOZ, "the genius of Myth," represented as a
youth partly draped in a mantle which leaves the right
shoulder bare. He acts here as an attendant at the
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
Icarios (No. 2190). Possibly in this case we are intended
to imagine the scene as being enacted inside the temple
thus slightly indicated. All the figures in this row can
be identified, as their names are inscribed immediately
under them. Homer, OMHPOZ, is seated near the left of
the scene, on a throne with a footstool. He is a venerable
bearded figure, wearing a long chiton with short sleeves,
over which is a mantle. The poet holds a scroll in his
right hand, and a sceptre with a lotus-top in his left
hand. His throne is supported by two female figures,
kneeling one at each side, IAIAZ, the Iliad, and OAYZZEIA,
the Odyssey. Iliad wears a long chiton, girt at the
waist. In her right hand she holds a sheathed sword, to
indicate that the subject of the Iliad is war; her left
hand clasps the leg of the throne of Homer. Odyssey,
of whom the head and left arm only are visible, holds up
the ornament from the stern of a ship (aplustre) as
a symbol of navigation. In front of the footstool of
Homer is a roll; at the left end of the roll is a mouse,
and at the right end, where the surface is now broken
away, there was probably a frog, in allusion to the
" Batracho-myo-machia," or Battle of Frogs and Mice, of
which the authorship was ascribed to Homer. Behind
the poet stand, side by side, XPONOZ, " Time," represented
by a winged male figure, apparently a portrait, who holds
a roll in each hand; and [OI]KOYMENH, "the inhabited
Earth," a female figure wearing a long chiton with
diploi'dion, and with her head veiled and surmounted by
a calathos; she crowns Homer Avith a wreath. In front
of the Poet is a kindled altar inscribed AA, decorated
with festoons and (probably) an ox-skull, beside which
stands a Carian bull with a hump. On the left of the
altar is MYOOZ, "the genius of Myth," represented as a
youth partly draped in a mantle which leaves the right
shoulder bare. He acts here as an attendant at the