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324 CATALOGUE OP SCULPTURE.arm raised for a spear thrust at a fallen enemy.the foot of the Inscribed Monument, Xanthos.Found atHard limestone; height, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches.Synopsis, Lycian Room, No. 1416. Joints at both sides show thatthe complete work was of considerable size. Compare the scenesof combat in the entrance of the rock tomb at Kiobaschi.Benndorf, Reisen in Lykien, I., p. 135 ; and at Tyssa, loc. cit.,II., p. 64.680. Figure of bull lying down to the right, on roughground. The head is worked in a very natural manner.The forms of the body are treated in the flat manner of abas-relief. The back has been left unfinished. Probablythe bull originally surmounted a tomb, at Athens. (CompareCurtius and Kaupert, Atlas von Athen, pi. 4.)Broughtfrom Greece by C JR. Cockerell. Presented by LordHillingdon.Pentelic marble ; height, 3 feet 2f inches ; length, 5 feet. Journ. ofHellen. Studies, VI., pi. C, p. 32.SEPULCHRAL VASES.For the supposed significance of Vases as SepulchralMonuments, see above, p. 297.68L Plain sepulchral lekythos, in low relief. Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 11 inches. Synopsis, No. 164 (276);Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 34, fig. 1 ; Ellis, Mgin Marbles, II.,p. 161.682. Sepulchral lekythos, with relief. An old man, Pytharatos,stands, clasping the hand of a seated man, Herophilos,who is also old.Inscribed : U.v6apaTo