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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUKE.

rears to tlie left, looking "back to the right. He has
Satyr's ears, and wears a panther's skin knotted round his
neck. The female figure is clad in a long chiton, which
leaves the left breast bare. She holds out her arms as if
for help. Her drapery and the panther's skin are flying
in the air to indicate the rapid movement of the Centaur.
On the right is a tree, beyond which is seen a vase on an
Ionic column. The ground (mainly modern) is rocky
with stumps of trees.

This group has been called Nessos and Deianira,
but there is nothing to show that that incident is
represented.

The subject of this relief is that of several of the
metopes of the Parthenon (cf. Nos. 313, 314, 318) and of
groups on the frieze from Phigaleia, but the florid lines
of the composition exhibit a strong contrast alike to the
severe simplicity of the metopes, and to the somewhat
greater elaboration of the frieze.

The vase on the column is a not infrequent accessory
on later Greek reliefs of a landscape character (cf.
Schreiber, Hellenist. Beliefbilder, Xos. 9, 15, 40, 59, 60),
but the present work appears to be Graeco-Bonian.—
Towneley Coll.

Marble. Height, 1 foot 10 inches; length, 1 foot 11| inches. Resto-
rations (by Cavaceppi): of female figure, right arm and part of
left ; the four legs and tail of Centaur ; lower part of tree, and
rocky ground. Formerly in the Verospi Palace at Rome. Mm.
Marbles, II., pi. 15; Ellis, 1'onn. Gall., II., p. 113; Grceco-
Roman Guide, I., No. 157 ; Mausell, No. 862 ; Cavaceppi,
Raccolta a" antiche Statue, III., pi. 20 ; Friederichs, Bausteine,
p. 398.

2202. Relief representing a grouj:> of a Satyr and a Nymph.
A Satyr, who is bearded and ithyphallic, advances
towards a Nymph, drawing aside her mantle, which she