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)

ALTARS.

393

the motive is orgiastic ; probably on each face of the
altar there were Bacchic figures in contrasted attitudes.
Analogous (but not identical) types are frequent in the
later Attic reliefs.—Elgin Coll.

Parian marble. Present height, 9^ inches. Mas. Marbles, IX.,
pi. 40, fig. 2. Synopsis, No. 330 (112); Ellis, Elgin Marbles,
II., p. 131, No. 330; Elgin Boom Guide, II., No. F. 10. For this
class of reliefs, cf. Hauser, Die Neu-Attischen Beliefs.

2499. Fragment of relief, probably from the angle of an altar.
On the left is a ram's head, from which hang a knotted
fillet and a sprig of laurel, which was probably met by a
corresponding sprig from a ram's head on the right, now
lost. On the left return face is the front of a similarly
placed ram's head. 1st cent. a.d. (?).

Gialio-antico marble. Height, 1\\ inches ; width, 1 foot.

DECORATIVE VASES.

2500. Vase encircled with a frieze representing a Dionysiac
orgy, in which the goat-legged Pan (Aegipan), Satyrs,
and Maenads take a part. Pan carries an amphora of
wine in his left hand ; he extends his right arm with a
vehement gesture towards the left. The next group on
the left is composed of a youthful Satyr clad in a short
tunic, panther's skin, and buskins, who rests his right
hand on the shoulder of a nude bearded Satyr, carrying a
pedum. These move to the left. Next comes a group of
three: a bearded Satyr, with a panther's skin twisted
round his left arm, stands between two Maenads, with his
right arm raised; a panther crouches at his feet. The
Maenads are clad in a transparent garment which leaves
one breast bare: they dance in contrasted attitudes; the
Maenad on the right hand brandishes a knife, the