87.Slab from the left end of a frieze. A woman stands near the foot of a couch upon which a dead man is laid out. Only the end of the couch and the left foot of the corpse remain. The woman wears a long chiton, himation, cap with tassel, and earrings. Behind her stands a male attendant, wearing a short chiton, drawn up, beneath a girdle. He holds a small piece of drapery in his left hand.
A groove to the left of the group seems to show that this slab was at an interior angle of a building. The different dimensions make it unlikely that it was a part of the same frieze as No. 86.—Xanthos.
Limestone; height, 2 feet 9½ inches; length, 2 feet 7 inches. Prachov, pl. 1, fig. 2; Murray, I., pl. 6; Wolters, 135; Wolters in Jahrbuch des Arch. Inst., I. p. 83.
88.Slab from the left end of a frieze. A woman wearing a long chiton with sleeves and a himation stands to right with right hand raised, and holding a flower(?). She holds a piece of drapery in left hand. Before her, the remains of another figure.
At the left of this figure is a groove, suggesting that this was an interior angle stone.—Xanthos.
Limestone; height, 2 feet 9 inches; length, 3 feet 6 inches. Prachov, pl. 6 b. h; Wolters, Jahrbuch des Arch. Inst., I., p. 83.
89, 90.Gable end of a tomb. On each side of a doorway is a seated Sphinx, and above the lintel are two lions.—Xanthos.
89.The Sphinx on the left wears a cap enclosing most of the hair, a pendant earring, and a narrow taenia. There are traces of red paint on the cap, and of the markings of feathers on the wings. The head and fore-quarters of the lion are wanting.
Limestone; height, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. About 3 inches appear to be wanting on the right of the slab. Prachov, pl. 5, fig. 1 (the head only of the Sphinx); Dieulafoy, L'Art Ant. de la Perse, II., pl. 18, fig. 2; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 101a.
90.The Sphinx on the right of the doorway has her hair confined by a broad band, and has a pendant earring. The markings of the feathers may be seen on the wings. When first discovered in 1840, this relief was brilliantly coloured, as is recorded in a drawing by Scharf. The ground of the relief was bright blue; the feathers were red, black, blue, and white. The hair was yellow, and the taenia was painted with a white pattern on a red ground. The head and fore-quarters of the lion are wanting.