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THE SEPULCHRAL BANQUET. 333bably his wife. She holds her veil with her left hand.Behind the woman stands Hermes Psychopompos, aboutto conduct her shade to Hades. He has petasos, talaria,chlamys and caduceus. On the right is another malefigure standing, with folded hands, and beyond is whatappears to be an altar. The altar is rectangular, and issurmounted by a conical object, round which a serpent istwined. By the side of the altar is the mutilated figureof a boy. On the extreme left behind Hermes is a sundial,to which his hand is pointing. At the side of thechair stands a draped female attendant of diminutivestature. This figure is much defaced, and the lower partis broken away. The head of this figure has been brokenoff, and the faces and general surface of all the figures aremuch eaten away by exposure to weather. This reliefoccupies about a third of the circleof the pedestal, theremainder being ornamented by festoons of ivy suspendedbetween three bulls' heads. In the centre of the top ofthe pedestal is a round hole, as if to receive a dowel, andthe surface of the marble seems prepared for a joint. Thewhole may have served as a pedestal for a statue.— 06-tained from Greece hy the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, andpresented hy the fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861.Greek marble ; height, 3 feet 7 inches ; diameter, 2 feet 9 inchesOuide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures, Part II., No. 75.RELIEFS REPRESENTING THE SEPUL-CHRAL BANQUET.For a discussion of the interpretation of this class ofreliefs, see above, p. 298.711. Cast of a sepulchral relief, sometimes known as the"Death of Sociates." A man, boarded, reclines on acouch, with a bowl in his right hand, held out as if to