A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

DOMESTIC SCENES. 309foot, and helps her balance by touching with her handthe head of the maid kneeling before her. As in themonument of Hegeso (No. 619), there is a marked contrastbetween the mistress, richly draped in a chiton andhimation, and the girl before her, who has a plain longeleevedchiton and a cap. On the left is a female figure,perhaps a sister of Ameinocleia. She seems to be readinga tablet. The composition is framed by two pilasters,surmounted by a pediment.Insciibed'A/AetvoKA£ta'Ai'8po/i,o'o(Tj)s^T;yaTT;/DA. . .Ameinocleia,daughter of Andromenes. . .This relief appears tobelong to the close of the 5th century B.C. The original,of Pentelic marble, which is now at Athens, was discoveredin 1836 at the Piraeus.Height, 4 feet 4f inches width, 2 feet ; 3J inches. Le Bas, Mon. Fig.,pi. 65. C.LA., II., 2687 ; Mitchell, p. 500 ;Wolters, No. 1032 ;Stereoscopic, No. 123.621. Fragment of relief. A female figure, richly draped, isseated on a stool, to the left. The head, right arm, andknees are wanting. Athens. Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 5 inches.Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 39, fig. 3. Synopsis, No. 280 (279).622. Fragment of relief. The upper part of a female figure,richly draped, and seated, with her lefthand raised, theleft elbow supported by the right hand. Very highrelief. Athens. Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 1 foot 11 J inches.Synapsis, No. 419.623. Fragment of relief. Draped male figure seated, threequartersturned to the right, on a chair with a footstool.The head is wanting. Behind is part of a draped femalefigure standing. Her right arm is bent at the elbow, andcrosses her breast.Marble; height,'4 feet 11 inches ;width, 2 feet 10^ inches.