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.

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2388. Sepulchral chest with cover. On the front is a tablet,
surrounded by a double Lesbian cymation, but uninscribed.
On the sides are joints imitating masonry. On the cover
are two double volutes.-—Temple Bequest.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, 7J inches; length, 11| inches.

2389. Oblong sepulchral chest, with sloping sides, the lip
surrounded by an egg-and-tongue moulding. The cover
has a central ridge, with flutings towards each side.—
Temple Bequest.

Italian marble. Height, without cover, 5 inches; length, 1 foot
2^ inches.

2390. Oblong capital of a cippus, the four sides of which are
ornamented with relief's within sunk moulded panels.
(1) A two-handled basin, out of which two doves are
drinking. Behind is an ithyphallic term of the bearded
Bacchus. (2) A festoon of fruit tied with sashes between
two geese, above which a patera is suspended. (3) Masks
of Pan, and of a youthful Satyr confronted, each resting
on the basket used in Dionysiac rites ; between them is
a term representing a youth. (4) Two masks of young
Satyrs, one wreathed with ivy, similarly placed on the
baskets; between them are suspended a drinking horn
and a pair of cymbals.—Towneley Coll.

Marble. Height, 7£ inches ; width, 1 foot inches. Restored :
upper and lower mouldings of capital. The body of the cippus
from which this capital was cut at Rome was decorated with
foliage of the vine, ivy, and olive. Mus. Marbles, L, pi. 14;
Ellis, Town. Gull., II., p. 2b'4; Graco-Eoman Guile, II., No. 123.

2391. (Fig. 55.) Belief from a cippus. Within a small
panel, a skeleton lies at full length. Above is the
couplet:

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