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)

VASES.

399

to express agony. (Compare the young Giant who
opposes Athene, on the Pergamene frieze, and the
" Dying Alexander.") The hair is in wild tresses about
the face. The head is worked in the round, but is
attached to a ground, which appears from the working of
the back to be a part of a circular marble vase. The
style is that of the Pergamene school.—Trebezond.

Parian marble. Height, 3£ inches. Farnell, Journ. of Hellen.
Studies, VII., p. 273.

2507. Fragment of the rim of a rectangular basin (?). On
the rim a frieze of marine subjects, namely a nude Nereid,
to the right, recumbent on a sea-lioness, with left hand
round its neck, and a nude Nereid to the left, recumbent
on a sea-horse. In each case the legs are wanting.
Below is a bead-and-reel moulding. Late work, slight
and indistinct.

Marble. Height of relief, of inches ; width, 9£ inches.

CANDELABRA.

2508. Candelabrum. In each of the three sides of the base
has been inserted a figure in relief, evidently borrowed
from some other composition. (1) A winged Victory
stands on tiptoe to the left, pouring a libation from a jug
into a bowl. Her chiton falls in long folds and the
composition has a formal character, which makes it almost
certain that this figure has formed part of a group
representing Victory pouring a libation to Apollo
Musegetes (see vol. i., nos. 774, 775). (2) A bearded
Satyr carries a wine-skin, askos, on his left shoulder to
the left, and holds a pedum in his right hand. (3) The
Maenad Agaue moves to the right, with her head thrown