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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
metallic vases, is placed on each of the four sides of the
border.—Temple Bequest.
Italian marble. Height (including pedestal), 3 feet 2| inches.
Restored: the spirally fluted stem with pedestal, and one corner
of the square border. Graco-Roman Guide, II., No. 106.
2538. Fountain, formed by a shaft of marble, enriched with
foliage from its base to its apex. This foliage is of three
kinds, each issuing from a sort of calyx of broad leaves,
so as to divide the shaft into three sections, which
diminish in height from the base upwards. The lowest
division is ornamented with olive branches, the second
with ivy branches, and the third with the leaves and
flowers of some unknown plant. Bound the middle
division is twined a serpent, through whose mouth the
water issued from a pipe, part of which still remains.
The water was supplied by a pipe which entered by a
perforation in the back of the pillar. The fountain
probably stood in the middle of a basin. It now stands
on a square base, with a moulded panel on each side.
2nd cent. a.d. (?).—Toioneley Coll.
Italian marble. Height, 5 feet 10§ inches; diameter, 6| inches..
Restored: a small portion of the apex. Found in 1776 by
Nicolo la Picola, about five miles from Tivoli, near the road to
Praeneste. Dallaway, p. 325; Mm. Marbles, I., pi. 10; Ellis,
Town. Gall., II., p. 74; G?-aco-Roman Guide, II., No. 4.
2539. Pillar or stem of a fountain, resting on a square base.
The pillar is divided by bands into four compartments,,
ornamented with foliage sculptured in low relief. In
the two lower divisions the surface of the pillar is covered
with leaves formally arranged in overlapping rows, with
clusters of berries between each pair; in the two upper
divisions branches are turned round the pillar less
formally.— Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 4 feet 8 inches. Restored : capital and foot.
Graco-Roman Guide, II., No. 113.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
metallic vases, is placed on each of the four sides of the
border.—Temple Bequest.
Italian marble. Height (including pedestal), 3 feet 2| inches.
Restored: the spirally fluted stem with pedestal, and one corner
of the square border. Graco-Roman Guide, II., No. 106.
2538. Fountain, formed by a shaft of marble, enriched with
foliage from its base to its apex. This foliage is of three
kinds, each issuing from a sort of calyx of broad leaves,
so as to divide the shaft into three sections, which
diminish in height from the base upwards. The lowest
division is ornamented with olive branches, the second
with ivy branches, and the third with the leaves and
flowers of some unknown plant. Bound the middle
division is twined a serpent, through whose mouth the
water issued from a pipe, part of which still remains.
The water was supplied by a pipe which entered by a
perforation in the back of the pillar. The fountain
probably stood in the middle of a basin. It now stands
on a square base, with a moulded panel on each side.
2nd cent. a.d. (?).—Toioneley Coll.
Italian marble. Height, 5 feet 10§ inches; diameter, 6| inches..
Restored: a small portion of the apex. Found in 1776 by
Nicolo la Picola, about five miles from Tivoli, near the road to
Praeneste. Dallaway, p. 325; Mm. Marbles, I., pi. 10; Ellis,
Town. Gall., II., p. 74; G?-aco-Roman Guide, II., No. 4.
2539. Pillar or stem of a fountain, resting on a square base.
The pillar is divided by bands into four compartments,,
ornamented with foliage sculptured in low relief. In
the two lower divisions the surface of the pillar is covered
with leaves formally arranged in overlapping rows, with
clusters of berries between each pair; in the two upper
divisions branches are turned round the pillar less
formally.— Temple Bequest.
Marble. Height, 4 feet 8 inches. Restored : capital and foot.
Graco-Roman Guide, II., No. 113.