A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume 1 (of 2)

by A. H. Smith

Limestone; height, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4½ inches. Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., CXCI.; Latyschev, II., 96.

742. Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of very rude style, contained in a lunette above the inscribed panel. A male figure reclines on a couch, with a cup in his right hand, with an uncertain object near the cup, which may perhaps be intended to represent the snake. A table stands before the couch with food. A woman sits on a stool at the foot of the couch, and holds her veil with her left hand. A small figure of a boy is at the head of the couch. On each side of the inscribed panel is a vine branch with grapes; above are a pine cone and two lions' heads to the front in high relief. Below are the remains of a relief with a mounted horseman. On the right and left edges of the relief are snakes. The inscription states that the monument is erected by Timocrates for his wife, his son, and himself.—Tomis.

Limestone; height, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 8½ inches. Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., CLXXVII.

743. Sepulchral monument with a banquet relief of the rudest style. Two male figures, one being bearded, recline on a couch, holding cups in their left hands. Before them is a table with food; beside it a boy with a cup and oinochoè (?), and a girl with a phialè. A woman is seated on a chair by the head of the couch, with the right hand raised to her chin. A vine branch with grapes runs round the relief and the inscribed panel. A Latin inscription states that the monument was erected in memory of a girl, Ulpia Aurelia Valeria.—Kertch.

Limestone; height, 7 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet.

744. Late sepulchral relief. A man reclines on a couch. A woman stands at the foot of the couch. The relief is contained in an arch-shaped field below a pediment. Inscribed, ΛΥΤΕ ...—Obtained by the Euphrates Expedition (1835-1837) and presented by Sir J. C. Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control.

Marble; height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot 3 inches.

745. Sepulchral relief, with a man seated, and a man standing holding a scroll in his left hand. The two figures probably joined their right hands. In the right and left angles are diminutive figures. On the right is a horse's head. A tree with a snake is seen above a wall in the background. The relief is surmounted by an entablature.

Inscribed with the metrical epitaph: