712. Relief with banquet. Two male figures recline together on a couch. One is a bearded man, the other is a youth. The man holds a bowl in his left hand and places his right hand on the shoulder of the youth who turns his head towards him. Before the couch is a table with provisions. On the right is a nude youth with a jug and bowl. On the left is a youth, wearing tunic and chlamys, who leads a horse. The relief is bounded by pilasters and an architrave.
On the lower margin is the modern inscription Aesculapio Tarentino Salenius Arcas, added by some person who supposed that the relief was a votive tablet to Aesculapius. The inscription, however, makes it probable that the relief was obtained at Tarentum. The type of the horse also agrees well with that on the coins of Tarentum, of about the close of the fourth century, B.C. The relief is perhaps erected to a father and two sons. It is also possible that the two figures of the youth represent the same person, and that only two persons in all are here commemorated.—Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., 1845.
Marble, probably Pentelic; height, 1 foot 10½ inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. The upper right-hand corner is restored. P. Gardner, Journ. of Hellen. Studies, V., p. 105, and plate; Wolters, No. 1054; Roscher, Lexicon, p. 2575.
713. Relief with banquet, serpent, and sacrifice. Two men recline on a couch. Both have cups in their left hands. One holds up a rhyton terminating in a ram's head; the other stretches out his right hand to a long table which stands before the couch. A woman, seated on the end of the couch, holds a cup in her left hand and stretches out her right hand to the table. Below the table is a coiled serpent. On the left of the woman is a nude youth holding up a rhyton. Beyond is a square altar, to which a boy, who is now almost obliterated, leads a pig. He holds a bowl in his left hand. On the left are four adult persons and two infants, and above, the head of a horse in a frame. The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by an entablature, above which roof-tiles are slightly indicated.—Townley Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches.
714. Fragment of relief with banquet and sacrifice. On the right is part of the figure of a woman, who is seated at the foot of a couch, most of which is now lost. Before her is part of a table. At the foot of the couch is an altar which is approached by a procession of three adult persons and four children, one of whom leads a ram. Above, a horse's head is seen at a window. The relief is bounded by pilasters and an entablature, above which roof-tiles are shown.—Athens? Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 3 inches; width, 1 foot ½ inch. Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 35, fig. 1; Synopsis, No. 279 (94); Welcker, Alte Denkmaeler, II., p. 273; cf. Welcker, loc. cit., II., pl. 13, No. 24; Pervanoglu, Familienmahl, p. 44, No. 174.
715. Fragment of relief, which may be supposed to have been similar to the preceding. Sacrificial procession, including a man, of whom but little remains, a woman, two children, and one draped figure, whose sex cannot be distinguished, carrying a large vessel on the head.—Athens? Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 4¾ inches; width, 9½ inches. Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 36, fig. 3; Synopsis, No. 189 (284); Guide to Elgin Room, Part II., No. F. 6.