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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

2344. Fragment of a sarcophagus, with moulding along the
top edge, and an ox-head in relief, with one end of a
festoon of fruit, etc., hanging from it, tied with sashes.

Parian marble. Height, 1 foot J inch ; width, 1 foot 3 inches.

2345. 1. Fragment of a sculptured sarcophagus, with a large
bunch of grapes and a vine leaf. On each side the knee
of an Eros (?).—-From a heroon at Lydae. Presented by J.
Theodore Bent, Esq., 1888.

Marble. Height, 7 inches. Bent, Journ. of ffellen. Studies, IX.,
p. 84. " Another sarcophagus, belonging to Coccias Sarpedonides,
was decorated by Cupids holding bunches of grapes at which
partridges were feeding." Compare No. 2330, for other frag-
ments from the site.

2. Fragment of the same sarcophagus, with a partridge
pecking at a bunch of grapes; above, remains of a wreath,
with poppy-head, and ear of corn.

Marble. Height, 10J inches ; width, 1 foot 2 inches.

Sepulchral Chests and Cippi.

Chronology of the Chests and Cippi.—The examples
described in the present section probably belong for the
most part to the first and early second centuries a.d. For
their development see p. 294. The examples which can
be accurately dated, and which serve as standards for
comparison, are few in number (cf. No. 2350). To a
certain extent the periods can be inferred from the use
of imperial names. Thus an imperial freedman called
Tiberius Claudius (No. 2362) is likely to erect a monu-
ment to his wife within a few years of the middle of the
first century a.d.

The inscribed cippi, etc., Nos. 2350-2381, are arranged
in alphabetical order.