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This theory hardly accounts for the gestures of the attendant figures.

Above the relief is a pediment, inscribed [Greek: Xanthippos]. (Pl.

xi., fig. 2.)

_Brought from the monastery of Asomato or Petraki at Athens by Dr.

Anthony Askew about 1747._ _Townley Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches.

_Burney MSS._, No. 402; _Mus. Marbles_, X., pl. 33; Ellis, _Townley Gallery_, II., p. 106; _C.I.G._, 980; _C.I.A._, II., 4040; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, CXXIII.; Wolters, No.

1019; Brueckner, _Von den griech. Grabreliefs_, p. 26.

[Sidenote: =629.=]

Sepulchral monument of Jason. A physician, Jason, an elderly bearded man, is seated on a stool. Before him stands a boy, undergoing examination, and clearly shown to be suffering, by his swollen belly and wasted limbs. On the right is a vessel of peculiar form, resembling a cupping gla.s.s, but on a scale out of all proportion to that of the group, and not to be considered as a part of it.

The inscription runs: [Greek: Iason ho kai Dekmos Acharneus iatros, k.t.l.], and contains the names of 'Jason, called also Decimus, of the Acharnian deme, a physician,' and of other members of his family. The relief is surmounted by a row of roughly indicated antefixal tiles.

_Obtained by Fauvel in Athens; afterwards in the Choiseul-Gouffier and Pourtales Collections._

Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10-1/2 inches. _C.I.G._, 606; _C.I.A._, III., 1445; Panofka, _Antiques du Cabinet Pourtales_, p. 78, pl. 26; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit.

Mus._, Lx.x.xI.; Wolters, No. 1804. On the cupping vessel see the two references last cited.

[Sidenote: =630.=]

Sepulchral monument of Agathemeris and Semp.r.o.nios Niketes. Draped male and female figures stand to the front. The woman wears the dress of a priestess of Isis, with a sistrum in her right hand and a vase in her left hand.

Inscribed [Greek: Agathemeris S e Aphrodeisiou ek Kol(l)yteon.

Senp.r.o.nios Niketes Kollyteus.] The letters [Greek: S e] have not been explained.

Discovered, in 1826, _between Athens and the Piraeus_.--_Presented by Gen. Malcolm._

Pentelic marble; height, 5 feet 6-1/2 inches; width, 3 feet.

_C.I.G._, 662_b_; _C.I.A._, III., 1760.

[Sidenote: =631.=]

Figure of a youth, a son of one Diodoros, standing, with a chlamys wrapped about his left arm. He holds a cup (?) in the right hand and a strigil in the left hand. Beside him, a diminutive figure of a nude boy holding a strigil. A tree on the left.

Inscribed [Greek: ... Diodorou, chreste, [chaire].--_Rhenea._ _From the Earl of Belmore's Coll._

Parian marble; height, 4 feet; width, 1 foot 8 inches. _C.I.G._, 2313.

[Sidenote: =632.=]

Upper part of a sepulchral relief. A draped male figure is seated on a chair. Before him stands a figure also draped. In the background, a bearded man and a woman stand one on each side of the seated person.

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