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)

GREEK SEPULCHRAL RELIEFS.

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2231. (Fig. 37). Sepulchral relief of Gdykylla. A woman,
fully draped, wearing long tunic, a large mantle which
passes over the back of the head and round the legs, and
sandals, is seated on a low

chair to right, with a
footstool. The footstool
is decorated with animal
legs, and an ivy leaf.
She holds up her left
hand, and is engaged in
adjusting a bracelet of
spirally twisted work
about her left wrist, with
her right hand. A maid
stands before her, keep-
ing open with the right
hand the lid of a casket
which she holds in her
left. The maid is dressed
in long tunic and upper
tunic, and has her hair
closely rolled round her
head.

Inscribed TXvkvXXo.
The relief is crowned by a simple pediment with small
acroterial ornaments, but there are no side pilasters.
Probably a work of the end of the 5th century b.c.—Said
to have been found at Thebes.

Pentelic marble. Height, 3 feet J inch. Purchased, 1893. J own.
of Hellen. Studies, XIV., pL 11, fig. 1 ; p. 267 (A. H. Smith);
Arch. Anzeiger, 1896, p. 38 ; Mansell, No. 1474. .

2232 Sepulchral relief, with mother, nurse and child, A
woman, fully draped in sleeved tunic and mantle which
passes over her head, is seated on a low chair to the left.

Fig. .37. No. 2231.