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290 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUKE.The foregoing are the main types of the early Atticreliefs. The British Museum does not contain any specimensof the early period, but the study of the earlyreliefs enables us to classify the later works, and to distinguishthe indigenousimported, or of later development.Attic types from those that areDecorative Stelae. — The stelae crowned with thepalmette and acanthus acroteria are described below,Nos. 699-618. They are principally derived from Athens,but several specimens (Nos. 611-618) roughly worked incoarse limestone are a part of the collection of sculpturesfrom Kertch. One of the best examples of Attic work ofthis class in the British Museum, will be found in theDepartment of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, namelythe stele of Artemidoros with a bilingual Greek andPhoenician inscription. (Dodwell, Tour i., p. 411; GreekInscriptions in Brit. Mus., cix.)Scenes from Daily Life and figures of Animals.—Themonuments with portraits and scenes from daily life arecatalogued below, Nos. 619-679. The incidents chosenaie taken from all parts of life, and in late times are aptto be of a genre character with scenes from children'sgames, &c.Beliefs with figures of horsemen, where the scene appearsonly to be an incident from daily life, and not connectedwith the heroification of the deceased, have also beenplaced here (Nos. 638, 661-666).Examples of the figure of an animal placed on the tomb,of a symbolic or decorative character, are best seen amongthe archaic sculptures (compare those from Xanthos),but the bull. No. 680, is a specimen of a figure from anAttic stele.The types which have been described so far, are simplerecords of the deceased person. We turn now to variousclasses, which are not represented among the Attic remains