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)

FOUNTAINS.

409

Parian marble. Height, 11J inches. Restored : part of the pedestal
and small portions of figs. 1 and 4. Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 74;
Grceco-Roman Guide, II., No. 61.

2536. (Fig. 67.) Base of a fountain. Within an oblong
basin is a truncated pyramid. The middle of each face is
cut with overlapping bands, like a roof; above each
slope is a scallop shell. Each angle is cut away so as to
form a concave niche, in which is set a dog's head, below
which is a scallop shell. In the centre of the top a hole
is cut for the pipe which conveyed the water; this hole is
encircled by a sinking, which received the marble stem

in which the pipe was encased. In the side of the basin
is a hole to let the water escape.—Presented by Charles
Townley, Esq., 1786.

Italian marble. Length, 2 feet 5| inches; width, 2 feet. Restored :
noses of three of the dogs and small portions of the outer basin.
Ellis, Town. Gall., II., p. 75 ; Graico-Roman Guide, II., No. 45.

2537. Basin of a fountain. A round basin, with slightly
spiral fiutings, is set in a square border. In the centre of
the basin is an aperture for a pipe, surrounded by
acanthus leaves bending back. The square border is also
fluted, and has an egg-and-tongue moulding along the
lip. At each corner is a rosette in relief. Outside the
basin a handle, of which the form is borrowed from