628. Sepulchral monument of Xanthippos. An elderly bearded figure is seated on a chair. He holds a foot in his extended right hand. Diminutive figures of a woman and a girl stand beside him. The girl is gazing at the foot, and raises her hands towards it, while the woman looks towards Xanthippos. She holds a bird in her right hand. It has been supposed that the foot is a votive offering, to commemorate a remarkable cure. Wolters, however, explains the object as a shoemaker's last (καλάπους, cf. Monumenti dell' Inst., xi. pl. 29), and interprets it as an allusion to the trade of Xanthippos. This theory hardly accounts for the gestures of the attendant figures.
Above the relief is a pediment, inscribed Ξάνθιππος. (Pl. xi., fig. 2.)
Brought from the monastery of Asomato or Petraki at Athens by Dr. Anthony Askew about 1747. Townley Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches. Burney MSS., No. 402; Mus. Marbles, X., pl. 33; Ellis, Townley Gallery, II., p. 106; C.I.G., 980; C.I.A., II., 4040; Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., CXXIII.; Wolters, No. 1019; Brueckner, Von den griech. Grabreliefs, p. 26.
629. Sepulchral monument of Jason. A physician, Jason, an elderly bearded man, is seated on a stool. Before him stands a boy, undergoing examination, and clearly shown to be suffering, by his swollen belly and wasted limbs. On the right is a vessel of peculiar form, resembling a cupping glass, but on a scale out of all proportion to that of the group, and not to be considered as a part of it.
The inscription runs: Ἰάσων ὁ καὶ Δέκμος Ἀχαρνεὺς ἰατρός, κ.τ.λ., and contains the names of 'Jason, called also Decimus, of the Acharnian deme, a physician,' and of other members of his family. The relief is surmounted by a row of roughly indicated antefixal tiles.
Obtained by Fauvel in Athens; afterwards in the Choiseul-Gouffier and Pourtalès Collections.
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10½ inches. C.I.G., 606; C.I.A., III., 1445; Panofka, Antiques du Cabinet Pourtalès, p. 78, pl. 26; Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., LXXXI.; Wolters, No. 1804. On the cupping vessel see the two references last cited.
630. Sepulchral monument of Agathemeris and Sempronios Niketes. Draped male and female figures stand to the front. The woman wears the dress of a priestess of Isis, with a sistrum in her right hand and a vase in her left hand.