A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume 1 (of 2)

by A. H. Smith

Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 7¼ inches; length, 3 feet 10½ inches. Synopsis, No. 131 (308). Stuart, II., ch. V., pl. 8, fig. 1; Bohn, Die Propyläen, pl. 12, fig. 6.

MISCELLANEOUS ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS.

436. Capital of one of the antae from the small Ionic temple near the Ilissos seen by Stuart, but destroyed since his time in 1780.—Elgin Coll.

Height, 1 foot ⅛ inch; breadth, 2 feet ½ inch. Synopsis, No. 170 (174). Stuart, I., ch. II., pl. 8, fig. 1. See also Leake, Topography of Athens, 2nd ed., p. 250.

437. Moulding with anthemion, plait, maeander, and leaf, bead and reel patterns. Found near the south-east anta of the Erechtheion.—Inwood Coll.

Height, 8¼ inches; breadth, 6¾ inches. Synopsis, No. 407. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 26, p. 138.

438. Antefixal ornament or acroterion from the temple of Demeter at Eleusis. For a similar ornament see Kinnard in Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 2nd ed., iii., pl. 1, p. 53.—Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 3 feet 7½ inches. Synopsis, No. 169 (173); Laborde, Le Parthénon, pl. 27.

439. Ornament of roof-tile, kalypter anthemotos. Purchased by Inwood at Athens.—Inwood Coll.