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

318 CATALOGUE OP SCULPTURE.before her, two girls, of whom one holds a ball and theother a fan, Found in a store at Portsmouth. Prohdhlyfrom Smyrna.Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 1 foot IJ inch.653. A boy throws a ball for a dog which springs up towardshim, Strangford Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, lOJ inches. Arch.Anzeiger, 1864, p. 165*.654. Draped male figure standing, with a boy at his sideabove an arch, springing from pilasters, and surmountedby a ptdiment with rosette and acroteria. Kertch.Limestone ; height, 2 feet 3f inches ; width, 1 foot 9J inches.655. Sepulchral relief, Tude and late. Standing, drapedfemale figure raises her right hand to her cheek. Thefirst inscription has been obliterated, and in place of itthe inscription, 20T ., . NIKE x^-^P^'Greek marble ;height, 2 feet 2J inches ; width, 1 foot.is656. Sepulchral monument of Artipous. An old woman isseated wrapped in her mantle, with a pomegranate in herleft hand. A girl stands at her left side holding a boxand a purse (?). The relief is bounded by pilasters,surmounted by a pediment with acroteria.Inscribed : 'ApTiVovs 'AXKifi-a and ltt. l is a symbol,chiefly used in Ptolemaic inscriptions to precede anumeialdenoting a year. The inscription therefore appears tomean ' 80 years old,' if tt is given its usual value. Kertch.Limestone ; height, 4 feet J inch ; width, 2 feet 5f inches. GreekInscriptions in Brit. Mns., GCII. ; Latyschev, II., 133.657. A draped figure, Theodote, seated on a throne, raises herleft hand to her veil. Before her a figure of a girl, standing.The arms of the throne are supported by Sphinxes.