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

by A. H. Smith

752. Fragment of sepulchral relief? A figure was represented leading a horse to the right. Only one hand and foot, and parts of the horse remain. Before it stand three male figures on a smaller scale, each figure raising the right hand, making a gesture as of adoration. The relief was bounded by pilasters and an entablature.—Blayds Coll.

White marble; height, 1 foot 1 inch; width, 1 foot 1 inch.

753. Sepulchral relief. A youth rides on a horse, to the right, wearing a short tunic and cloak. He approaches a female figure, of a larger scale, who wears a long chiton and himation. She has an oinochoè in the right hand and a phialè in the left hand. Behind her is a bearded figure on a smaller scale with the right hand raised as in adoration.—Aphanda, Rhodes.

Marble; height, 1 foot 5 inches; width, 2 feet. Arch. Anzeiger, 1854, p. 485, No. 8; Athenische Mittheilungen, VIII., p. 370.

754. Fragment of a sepulchral relief, of a late period. A mounted horseman advances to a flaming altar. On the right of the altar is a pine tree, about which a snake is coiled. Only the head and forelegs of the horse, and the left hand of the horseman is preserved. The hand holds a double-headed axe. A dog stands below the horse.—Ephesus. J. T. Wood.

Ephesian marble; height, 1 foot 4½ inches; width, 8 inches. The figure with the double-headed axe resembles that of the so-called θεὸς σώζων on late reliefs from Asia Minor (Journ. of Hellen. Studies, VIII., p. 235; Roscher, Lexicon, p. 2564).

755. Fragment of a sepulchral relief of a late period. A mounted horseman with a chiton and a cloak flying behind him stands on the left of an altar, at which a draped youth makes a libation. On the right is a tree about which a snake is coiled. The left side of the relief is wanting.—Ephesus. J. T. Wood.

Ephesian marble; height, 1 foot 2 inches; width, 1 foot 5 inches.

756. Fragment of a sepulchral relief, with a figure of a mounted horseman wearing a chiton and cloak. The head of the rider, and the head and hind-part of the horse are wanting.—Ephesus. J. T. Wood.