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)

CHESTS AND CIPPI: SEXTIUS-VERNASIA. 357

cover has a pediment containing two peacocks and a basket
of fruit; a mask at each. end.—Towneley Coll.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, 7| inches ; width, 1 foot 9|
inches. Restored : cover and plinth. Formerly in the Passionei
Collection at Frascati, and afterwards in the Villa Burioni, at
Rome. First copied by Tolomei, about 1666. Mus. Marbles, V.,
pi. 3, fig. 1; Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 234; Vvolters.No. 2110 ;
C.I.L., VI., 26571.

2377. Sepulchral chest, with cover. A male figure, half draped,
reclines on a bed, holding a vase in the left hand. At
each end of the bed is a flaming torch. Below, within
a moulded panel, is the inscription: Bis Manibus T(iti)
Tituleni Isaurici. Iulia Tyclie coniugi bene merenti. This
subject is an example of the latest form of the Greek
banquet reliefs (cf. vol. i., p. 298). The cover is in the
form of a pediment containing a wreath, and with a
palmette at each angle.—Towneley Coll.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, 1 foot 1J inches ; width,
1 foot ^ inch. Formerly in the Mattei collection, and engraved
with a different cover (two birds and a basket of fruit) in Venuti,
Mm. Matt., HI., pi. 60, fig. 1. Mus. Marbles, V., pi. 2, fig. 4;
Ellis, Town. Gall., EL, p. 233 ; C.I.L., VI., 27537. First copied
by Gudius, in 1662.

2378. Front of a sepulchral chest. At the angles are rams'
heads (that on the left is for the most part broken away)
from which hang wreaths. In the middle is a tablet,
with a moulded frame, inscribed : B(is~) M(anibus) C.
Valentius Niger sibi et L. Valentio fratri.—Formerly in Lord
Bcssborouglis Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 9J inches ; width, 1 foot 4 inches. Pro-
bably from Rome. Bought, 1858. C.I.L., VI., 27913.

2379. Sepulchral chest, with cover. At each side of the front
are two long burning torches. They are connected by a
festoon of laurel, the ends of which hang down beside