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334 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.pour a libation. A woman seated on a stool by thefoot of the couch, extends her hands. On the right isa man, draped and bearded, and on the left a nudeyouth who stands with a jug by a large crater. Belowthe couch is a dog gnawing a bone. The original, ofwhite marble, was found at the Piraeus in 1838, and isnow in the National Museum at Athens.Height, 1 foot 7| inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 'Eriij.epis, 1839,No. 269 ; Le Bas, Mon. Fij., pi. 52 ; Pervanoglu, Fami/ienmahl,p. 24, No. 60 ; Mitchell, p. 504 ; Welters, No. 1052 ; Roscher,Lexicon, p. 2574.712. Relief with banquet. Two male figures recline togetheron a couch. One is a bearded man, the other is ayouth. The man holds a bowl in his left hand and placeshis right hand on the shoulder of the youth who turnshis head towards him. Before the couch is a table withprovisions. On the right is a nude youth with a jug andbowl. On the left is a youth, wearing tunic and chlamys,who leads a horse. The relief is bounded by pilastersand an architiave.On the lower margin is the modern inscription AesculapioTarentino Salenius Areas, added by some person whosupposed that the relief was a votive tablet to Aesculapius.The inscription, however, makes it probable that the reliefwas obtained at Tarentum. The type of the horse alsoagrees well with that on the coins of Tarentum, of aboutthe close of the fourth century, B.C.erected to a father and two sons.Tlie relief is perhapsIt is also possible thatthe two figures of the youth represent the same person,and that ov^y two persons in all are here commemorated.Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., 1845.Marble, probably Pentelic ; height, 1 foot 10^ inches ;width, 2 feet9 inches. The upper right-hand corner is restored. P. Gardner,Joum. of Hellen. Studies, V., p. 105, and plate ; Wolters,No. 1054; Roscher, Lexicon, p. 2575.