Part 65 (1/2)

Pentelic marble; height, 8 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 250 (114); Ellis, _Elgin Marbles_, II., p. 119.

[Sidenote: =672.=]

Head of a youth, three-quarters turned to the right, from the side of a sepulchral relief. He wears a taenia, and there are traces of drapery which pa.s.sed over the shoulder. There is a part of a pilaster on the left (Pl. xii., fig. 2.)--_Athens._

Pentelic marble; height, 8 inches.

[Sidenote: =673.=]

Head of a youth, half turned to the right, together with the neck and part of the breast. From a sepulchral relief. The waving locks of hair are freely treated. (Pl. xii., fig. 1.)--_Athens._

Pentelic marble; height, 10 inches. The tip of the nose is restored.

[Sidenote: =674.=]

Fragment of a sepulchral relief. A male head in high relief, wearing a taenia, is slightly bent forwards to the right. There are remains of drapery which pa.s.sed over the shoulder. On the left is part of a pilaster which bounds the relief.

Marble; height, 6-1/2 inches.

[Sidenote: =675.=]

Female head, probably from a sepulchral relief. The neck is much bent.

A portion of the right hand remains clasping the top of the head.

Marble; height, 6 inches.

[Sidenote: =676.=]

Fragment of the head of a youth, perhaps from a sepulchral relief.

A band pa.s.ses across the forehead immediately below the hair.--_Excavated by J. T. Wood, at Ephesus._

Marble; height, 5 inches.

[Sidenote: =677.=]

Portrait head of a bearded man. This head appears to be derived from a sepulchral monument in very high relief, and to have been turned to the left, as the left side is carefully finished, while the right side is rough and inaccurate.--_Athens?_ _Elgin Coll._

Pentelic marble; height, 10-1/2 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 242 (120).

[Sidenote: =678.=]

Fragment of the right side of a relief which was probably sepulchral.

A female figure, wearing a sleeved chiton and mantle, is seated on a chair. She extends her hands, probably towards a figure now wanting.

On the right is the head of a figure looking to the right, and part of a pilaster which bounds the scene. On the left is part of the drapery of a third figure.--_Ephesus._ _Strangford Coll._

Pentelic marble? Height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 11 inches.

[Sidenote: =679.=]

Fragment of a relief, perhaps sepulchral, containing the lower part of the body and the right leg of a warrior, who stands on rocky ground drawing himself rather to the left. He wears a short chiton, a cuira.s.s with a triple row of flaps (_pteryges_), and a mantle. Behind are the legs from the knees of a rec.u.mbent figure. The warrior appears to have had a s.h.i.+eld on the left arm, and the right arm raised for a spear thrust at a fallen enemy.--_Found at the foot of the Inscribed Monument, Xanthos._