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)

ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS.

415

Inscribed on the abacus 'EttI lirLixeX-qTov Ae[£iou?]
Atovt'crtou tov Aiovucnou Haiavecos.

Marble, much discoloured; diameter, 1 foot 10 inches.

2562. Fragment of Doric entablature. It consists of the
greater part of a set of triglyphs, and a part of the adjoin-
ing metope which was not sculptured. On the upper bed
<f> is rudely cut. This was a part of the Koman Doric
portico which surrounded the temple of Artemis at
Ephesus.

Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 2 ,feet 9 inches.
From J. T. Wood's excavations at Ephesus.

2563. Fragment of relief, perhaps from a metope, with part
of a scene of a gigantomachia. Zeus (?) nude, except for
a piece of drapery about his arms, holds with the left
hand the hair of a fallen giant wearing an exornis, on
whom he treads with his left foot, while his right arm is
raised to strike. Both heads are mutilated; that of the
giant has long hair and a taenia.—Elgin Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 2 feet inches; width, 2 feet 10J inches.
Mas. Marbles, IX., pi. 39, fig. 1; Ellis, Elgin Marbles, EL, p. 129 ;
(" Hercules and Diomed") ; Synopsis (1817), No. 166.

The Ionic Order*

2564, 2565. Two Ionic columns, fluted and partially reeded,
with bases and capitals. Roman period.

These columns were removed by Lord Elgin from a
wall attached to the church of the Monastery of Daphne,
on the road from Athens to Eleusis. They were not exactly
in their original position, but appeared to have been
derived from a building of uncertain character, which
occupied the same site. It is commonly identified with a

* See also No. 2735.