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DECORATIVE EELIEFS.
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strewn, and stretches out her left hand to receive an
Eros who is flying downwards holding out a lighted
torch.
(3) In the upper division the scene represents a proces-
sion, headed by a male figure holding a branch and
wearing a short tunic and buskins. He dances to the
right, looking back at an infant Dionysos mounted on a
goat and wearing a nebris. Behind follows a bearded
Silenus with a piece of drapery tied round his loins; and
the scene is closed on the left by a Maenad, who looks
back, holding up in her right hand an oinochoe, and with
her left drawing back the skirt of her garment, which a
nude crouching figure, probably a Satyr, has seized with
his right hand. She wears a loose flowing chiton, fastened
on the left shoulder. The relief is probably incomplete
at both ends, but the use to which it was applied is
uncertain.—Towneley Coll.
Fine limestone. Height, 1 foot lOf inches ; width, 1 foot 8 inches.
Restored: (1) arms of figure on left; heads of next two figures;
right arm of figure on right; (2) the body and left arm of
Aphrodite, leg, hand, and torch of Eros, right arm of Triton, left
foreleg and nose of bull, head and arm of figure on right; (3) the
heads of all the figures, right arm and leg of figure ou left, right
shoulder and arm and left leg of Silenus, head and right leg of
goat, right forearm and left hand (with part of branch) of figure
on right, Mas. Marbles, II., pi. 9 ; Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 146
(lower tier) ( =a Yaux, Handbook, p. 242); Grmco-Roman Guide, II.,
No. 127 ; Baumeister, Denkmaeler, III., p. 2142. This relief
belonged to Pope Sixtus the Fifth, and was formerly in the
Villa Montalto at Rome.
2210. Fragment of relief: An ox standing to the right under
a pine tree. On the ground in front of him a sacrificial
axe.—Presented by S. Chambers Hall, Esq., 1855.
Parian marble. Height. 10 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches. Grwco-
Roman Guide, II., No. 124; Arch. Zeit., 1855, p. 62*.
2211. Eelief: Cow drinking from a circular vessel while
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strewn, and stretches out her left hand to receive an
Eros who is flying downwards holding out a lighted
torch.
(3) In the upper division the scene represents a proces-
sion, headed by a male figure holding a branch and
wearing a short tunic and buskins. He dances to the
right, looking back at an infant Dionysos mounted on a
goat and wearing a nebris. Behind follows a bearded
Silenus with a piece of drapery tied round his loins; and
the scene is closed on the left by a Maenad, who looks
back, holding up in her right hand an oinochoe, and with
her left drawing back the skirt of her garment, which a
nude crouching figure, probably a Satyr, has seized with
his right hand. She wears a loose flowing chiton, fastened
on the left shoulder. The relief is probably incomplete
at both ends, but the use to which it was applied is
uncertain.—Towneley Coll.
Fine limestone. Height, 1 foot lOf inches ; width, 1 foot 8 inches.
Restored: (1) arms of figure on left; heads of next two figures;
right arm of figure on right; (2) the body and left arm of
Aphrodite, leg, hand, and torch of Eros, right arm of Triton, left
foreleg and nose of bull, head and arm of figure on right; (3) the
heads of all the figures, right arm and leg of figure ou left, right
shoulder and arm and left leg of Silenus, head and right leg of
goat, right forearm and left hand (with part of branch) of figure
on right, Mas. Marbles, II., pi. 9 ; Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 146
(lower tier) ( =a Yaux, Handbook, p. 242); Grmco-Roman Guide, II.,
No. 127 ; Baumeister, Denkmaeler, III., p. 2142. This relief
belonged to Pope Sixtus the Fifth, and was formerly in the
Villa Montalto at Rome.
2210. Fragment of relief: An ox standing to the right under
a pine tree. On the ground in front of him a sacrificial
axe.—Presented by S. Chambers Hall, Esq., 1855.
Parian marble. Height. 10 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches. Grwco-
Roman Guide, II., No. 124; Arch. Zeit., 1855, p. 62*.
2211. Eelief: Cow drinking from a circular vessel while