716. Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, who is half draped, reclines on a couch with a bowl in his right hand. He wears a polos and in type resembles a divinity. Before him is a table with food. A woman is seated on the foot of the couch and has a cup in her left hand. On the right a youth draws wine from a crater. On the left a man, woman, and boy approach as worshippers. The relief is bounded by two pilasters, surmounted by an entablature, above which are roof-tiles.—Townley Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 9½ inches; width, 1 foot 1¾ inches. Ellis, Townley Gallery, II., p. 167; Welcker, Alte Denkmaeler, II. p. 278.
717. Relief with banquet and sacrifice. A male figure, half draped and wearing a polos as in the last relief, reclines on a couch. He has a cup in the left hand and a rhyton in the right hand. Before him is a table with food. A woman is seated at the foot of the couch, with a cup in her left hand. On the left a boy stands beside a jar of wine, which is raised on a pedestal. At the left a woman, and two smaller figures approach as worshippers. Above, the head of a horse is seen looking through an opening. The relief is bounded by two pilasters, surmounted by an entablature, above which are roof-tiles.—Halicarnassos. Presented by H.M. Sultan Abdul Medjid to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, and by him presented to the British Museum.
Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 1 foot 1 inch.
718. Fragment of relief. A nude male figure who seems to be wearing a Phrygian cap, and holds some object in his right hand, stands with his left hand over an altar. On the right side of the altar was a male figure making a libation. Only the right hand with the saucer, and the right foot remain. On the left a bearded man stands, with his right hand raised.—Athens? Elgin Coll.
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches. Synopsis, No. 380 (101); Mus. Marbles, IX., pl. 37, fig. 1.
719. Group of persons about to sacrifice; from the left side of a sepulchral relief. On the right of the fragment is a man with a large amphora, turned to the right. Behind him are two men and two women, all standing as worshippers.—Mytilene.
Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 11 inches. Conze, Lesbos, p. 10, Note 3, No. 1.
720. Fragment of relief with banquet and serpent. A man reclines on a couch and pours a libation from a bowl. Before the couch is a table with food. A serpent is coiled beneath the table and stretches its head towards the bowl. On the left is the hand holding a casket (pyxis) of a woman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch. The relief is bounded by pilasters, an entablature and a roof.
Marble; height, 1 foot 1 inch; width, 9 inches.