Pentelic marble? Height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 11 inches.
679. Fragment of a relief, perhaps sepulchral, containing the lower part of the body and the right leg of a warrior, who stands on rocky ground drawing himself rather to the left. He wears a short chiton, a cuirass with a triple row of flaps (pteryges), and a mantle. Behind are the legs from the knees of a recumbent figure. The warrior appears to have had a shield on the left arm, and the right arm raised for a spear thrust at a fallen enemy.—Found at the foot of the Inscribed Monument, Xanthos.
Hard limestone; height, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Synopsis, Lycian Room, No. 141b. Joints at both sides show that the complete work was of considerable size. Compare the scenes of combat in the entrance of the rock tomb at Kiöbaschi. Benndorf, Reisen in Lykien, I., p. 135; and at Tyssa, loc. cit., II., p. 64.
680. Figure of bull lying down to the right, on rough ground. The head is worked in a very natural manner. The forms of the body are treated in the flat manner of a bas-relief. The back has been left unfinished. Probably the bull originally surmounted a tomb, at Athens. (Compare Curtius and Kaupert, Atlas von Athen, pl. 4.)—Brought from Greece by C. R. Cockerell. Presented by Lord Hillingdon.
Pentelic marble; height, 3 feet 2¾ inches; length, 5 feet. Journ. of Hellen. Studies, VI., pl. C., p. 32.
SEPULCHRAL VASES.
For the supposed significance of Vases as Sepulchral Monuments, see above, p. [297].
681. Plain sepulchral lekythos, in low relief.—Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 11 inches. Synopsis, No. 164 (276); Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 34, fig. 1; Ellis, Elgin Marbles, II., p. 161.