A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Part 75

Pentelic marble; height, 3-1/2 inches; width, 5-1/2 inches.

Dodwell, _Tour_, I., p. 403, with woodcut; _Synopsis_, No. 214 (251); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 41, fig. 5; _C.I.G._, 506; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 105, No. 212; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXVIII.

[Sidenote: =802.=]

Fragment of a votive relief, which originally represented a pair of eyes in relief, but now has little remaining except the left eye and part of the inscription: [Greek: hyps]ist[o].--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Found by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in 1803, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen in 1861._

Pentelic marble; height, 3-3/4 inches; width, 5 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXIX. This relief is perhaps identical with _C.I.G._, 499.

[Sidenote: =803.=]

Fragment of votive relief, with toes and the forepart of the right foot.--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 6-1/2 inches; width, 5-1/2 inches.

_Synopsis_, No. 217 (253); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 41, fig. 4; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 105, No. 217.

[Sidenote: =804.=]

Tablet with votive relief of v.u.l.v.a, dedicated by Olympias.

Inscribed: [Greek: Olympias hypsisto euchen].--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 5-1/2 inches; width, 7-1/2 inches.

Dodwell, _Tour_, I., p. 403; _Synopsis_, No. 216 (246); _C.I.G._, 500; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXII.

[Sidenote: =805.=]

Tablet with votive relief, representing a human face from the bridge of the nose downwards, dedicated by Tertia.

Inscribed: [Greek: Tertia hypsisto euchen].--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 8-1/2 inches; width, 7-3/4 inches.

Dodwell, _Tour_, I., p. 404, with woodcut; _Synopsis_, No. 218 (250); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 41, fig. 7; _C.I.G._, 501; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 105, No. 218; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXIII.

[Sidenote: =806.=]

Tablet with votive relief, representing a pair of arms, within a panel, dedicated by Claudia Prepusa. The hands are wanting.

Inscribed: [Greek: Klaudia Prepousa eucharisto hypsisto].--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 6 inches; width, 7-1/4 inches. Dodwell, _Tour_, I., p. 402, with woodcut; _Synopsis_, No. 215 (248); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 41, fig. 6; _C.I.G._, 502; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 105, No. 215; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.

Mus._, LXIV.

[Sidenote: =807.=]

Tablet with votive relief, representing a female breast somewhat broken, dedicated by Onesime.

Inscribed: [Greek: Onesime euchen Di hypsisto].--_Pnyx, Athens._ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 4-7/8 inches; width, 6 inches. Dodwell, _Tour_, I., p. 403; _Synopsis_, No. 211 (249); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 41, fig. 1; _C.I.G._, 503; Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 105, No. 211; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXV.

[Sidenote: =808.=]

Fragment of a votive relief, with part of a thigh, or perhaps part of the shoulder.

Inscribed: [Greek: ....a theo hypsi[sto e]uchen].--_Pnyx, Athens.

Found by the fourth Earl of Aberdeen in 1803, and presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen in 1861._

Pentelic marble; height, 4-1/4 inches; width, 4-1/2 inches. _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, LXX.

[Sidenote: =809.=]

Tablet with votive relief representing a left leg from above the knee in relief, dedicated to Asclepios and Hygieia.

Inscribed: [Greek: Asklepio kai Hyg(i)eia eucharisterion].--_Found in 1828, in a Shrine of Asclepios in Melos._ _Blacas Coll._

Parian marble; height, 1 foot 1-1/2 inches; width, 7-1/2 inches.

_Annali dell' Inst._, 1829, p. 341; _Exp. de Moree_, III., pl.

29, fig. 2; _C.I.G._, 2429; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CCCLXV. This relief was found together with the fine head of Asclepios (No. 550) and with a votive inscription (_C.I.G._, 2428).

[Sidenote: =810.=]

Tablet with votive relief, representing a right ear. The right side of the tablet is lost.--_Cyrene._

Marble; height, 6-3/4 inches; width, 10 inches. Smith and Porcher, p. 108, No. 148.

[Sidenote: =811.=]

Square votive tablet, dedicated by Anthusa, the daughter of Damainetos. On the tablet, within a raised wreath, the following objects are sculptured in relief:--In the centre is a bowl (phiale) inscribed with the dedication. Round this bowl are ranged a mirror, a torch, a spindle, a comb, a small phial, a small box with a lid containing three little circular boxes, which probably held paints; a pair of shoes; a small mortar, containing a pestle, shaped like a bent thumb; a knife, a strigil, a bottle, two bodkins, a small oval box with a lid, which probably held a sponge; a pair of shoes, and a conical object like a cap. The raised wreath which encircles these objects is composed of pomegranates, ears of corn, and ivy-berries, round which a sash is wound. Outside the wreath, on the upper right-hand corner of the tablet, a situla is sculptured in low relief, and a small footstool (?) on the lower corner on the same side. The corresponding angles on the left side of the tablet have been broken away, but the upper angle appears to have contained a situla. The relief is inscribed [Greek: Anthouse Damainetou hypostatria]. [Greek: Hypostatria] probably denotes some minister of inferior rank in the temple of the G.o.ddess to whom the tablet was dedicated. The explanation of the word [Greek: statria] given by Hesychius ([Greek: emplektria]), makes it probable that the function of the [Greek: hypostatria] here mentioned was to dress the image of the G.o.ddess.

This and the tablet No. 812 were found by the Earl of Aberdeen built into a ruined Byzantine church at _Slavochori in Laconia_, a place which is believed to be the site of the ancient Amyclae.

The combination of pomegranates and ears of corn, the symbols of Persephone and Demeter, with ivy-berries and fir-cones, the symbols of Dionysos, makes it probable that in the temple in which these tablets were dedicated, these deities had a joint worship.

Pausanias (iii., 20, 4) mentions a town near Amyclae called Bryseae, where was a temple of Dionysos which none but women were permitted to enter, and where women only performed the sacrifices. It is not improbable, as Lord Aberdeen conjectured, that these votive tablets were originally dedicated in this temple, and thence brought to Slavochori. It was a common custom among the Greeks to dedicate articles of female attire and toilet in the temples of G.o.ddesses. (See _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, No. x.x.xiv.)--_Brought from Greece by George, fourth Earl of Aberdeen; presented by George, fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861._

Marble; height, 3 feet; width, 2 feet 9-1/2 inches. This sculpture, with the following, was first published, in a strangely perverted form, by Caylus (_Recueil d'Antiq._, II., pl. 51), from drawings by Fourmont. Lord Aberdeen published them, with an engraving in Walpole's _Memoirs relating to Turkey_, London, 1817, I., p. 446. See also _C.I.G._, 1467; Leake, _Travels in the Morea_, I., p. 188, and _Peloponnesiaca_, pp. 163-165; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXLI.; Wolters, No. 1852; _Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 11; Mansell, No. 728.

[Sidenote: =812.=]

Votive tablet, dedicated by a priestess called Claudia Ageta, on which are sculptured in relief various articles of the toilet. In the centre is a bowl inscribed with the name of the priestess, [Greek: Klau(dia) Ageta Antipatrou, hiereia]; round it are the following objects:--On the left of the bowl, a sh.e.l.l to hold unguents, two mirrors (one much smaller than the other), a small comb, a hair-pin, a small bottle for unguents, a small oval tray with a lid, containing a sponge, a larger bottle, a cylindrical object, and a circular object like a stud; above the bowl is a small elliptical box, a bottle, and an object which appears to be a net for the hair; below are a comb, two bodkins, and a strigil. On the right of the bowl are two pairs of shoes, two studs linked together, a small mortar (in which is a pestle like a bent thumb), a spoon, and a small oblong box with a lid, into which are fitted six little circular boxes or bottles. Round these sculptured objects runs a raised frame richly ornamented with fir-cones, ivy, ears of corn, and pomegranates, and with a coiled snake in its lower side.--_From Slavochori in Laconia (cf. No. 811). Presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861._

Marble; height, 2 feet 3-1/2 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches.

Walpole's _Memoirs relating to Turkey_, 1817, I., p. 446; _C.I.G._, 1466; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXLII.; _Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 12; Wolters, No. 1851.

[Sidenote: =813.=]

Fragment of a votive relief dedicated by a victor in a torch race. On the right a youth, with a whisk for sprinkling, and a man stand at an altar. The head of the man is lost. Three nude athletes, of whom two are bearded, stand on the left conversing. Above is an entablature with the dedicatory inscription: [Greek: Ho deina l]ampadi nikesas, gymnasiarchon [anetheken]].--_Athens._ _Strangford Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 5-1/2 inches; width, 1 foot 1/2 inch. _C.I.G._, 257; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, XLI.; _C.I.A._, II., 1221.