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, 8¾ inches. Synopsis, No. 417. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 28, fig. 3, p. 144.

440. Ornament of roof-tile. Probably purchased by Inwood at Athens.—Inwood Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 10¾ inches. Synopsis, No. 412. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 28, fig. 2, p. 144.

441. Ornament of roof-tile, found "on the gable of a small Greek church, that appears to have been on the site of a temple" "in the gardens at Athens, beyond Mount Anchesmus."—Inwood Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 8½ inches. Synopsis, No. 411. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 23, p. 131.

442. Ornament of roof-tile found built into a modern house near the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.—Inwood Coll.

Pentelic marble; height, 11 inches. Synopsis, No. 413. Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 28, fig. 5, p. 144.

443. Capital of Ionic column discovered by Inwood built into the wall of a small Greek chapel called Agia Marina on the left bank of the Ilissos at Athens. This is probably the site of the temple of Artemis Eucleia mentioned by Pausanias (i., 14, 5, and compare ix., 17, 1). Roses are sculptured in the eyes of the volutes. Inwood remarks (p. 136) that the central enrichment over the cymatium between the volutes is unusual. From the absence of mortices by which the capital could be secured to the architrave or to the shaft, he infers (p. 133) that this capital may have belonged to some sepulchral stelè or other work, where great strength of construction was not required. Bötticher, who engraves this or a similar capital, is of the same opinion. The opposite face of the capital is nearly all broken away.—Inwood Coll.

Pentelic marble; width from centre of volute to centre of volute, 12¾ inches. Synopsis, No. 398. Inwood, Erechtheion, p. 132, pls. 24-25. Bötticher, Tektonik, pl. 30, fig. 7, text, p. 299.

444. Volute of Ionic capital. Inwood (p. 128) states that it was found near the site of the temple of Nikè Apteros, and that from its scale it probably belongs to that temple. This, however, is not the case, as may be seen by comparing this fragment with the capital of the temple of Nikè Apteros in Ross, Akropolis von Athen, pls. vii., viii. The pulvinus of this capital is ornamented with leaves, as in the example from Athens in Bötticher's Tektonik, pl. 31, fig. 5, text, p. 299.—Inwood Coll.