Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

2385. Sepulchral cippus, in the form of an altar. The front
is surmounted by a wreath, tied with fillets, with a
palmette at each angle.

Within a moulded panel is the inscription:

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Nap/acnxiWos (7t^lvv(t)\ov, i/'t'X7? crvveSpos
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pvfjTyjp 2aA./3|t'a MaTpwva 2co|Ttts te dSeX^os.

Below, the letters A E T E S X (?).

On the loft and right sides are an ewer and howl
respectively.—Blacas Coll.

Italian marble. Height, 3 feet 1J inches; width, 1 foot inches.
Formerly in the Giustiniani Gardens, near Rome. Spon, Misc.
Enid. Antiq., p. 3(58; C.I.G., 6264; Kaibel, Inscriptioncs
Graecae, XIV., 1868. First copied by Tolomei, about 1666.
For other copyists see Kaibel, I.e.

2386. Sepulchral chest, with cover. In the middle and at
the angles of the front are bucrania, connected by oak-
wreaths tied with ribands. Below each wreath is a pair
of ravens. On the ends are sprays of ivy.

The cover is in the form of two pediments, side by side,
with a pair of birds in each, and rosettes at the angles.—■
Temple Bequest.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, inches; width, 1 foot
inches.

2387. Sepulchral chest, with cover. On the front is a moulded
tablet, with wings, but uninscribed. Within the wings
are palmettes, and at the angles are small rosettes. At
each end is a large rosette.

The cover is in pediment form, with rosettes in the
pediment, and above each angle.—Temple Bequest.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, 7£ inches; width, 1 foot
If inches.