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THE SEPULCHRAL BANQUET. 335713. Relief with banquet, serpent, and sacrifice. Two menrecline on a couch. Both have cups in their left handsOne holds up a rhyton terminating in a ram's head ; theother stretches out his right hand to a long table whichstands before the couch. A woman, seated on the end ofthe couch, holds a cup in her left hand and stretches onther right hand to the table. Below the table is a coiledserpent. On the left of the woman is a nude youth holdingup a rhyton. Beyond is a square altar, to which aboy, who is now almost obliterated, leads a pig. He holdsa bowl in his left hand. On the left are four adultpersons and two infants, and above, the head of a horse ina frame. The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmountedby an entablature, above which roof-tiles areslightly indicated.Townley Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 2 inches ;width, 2 feet 2 inches.714. Fragment of relief with banquet and sacrifice. On theright is part of the figure of a woman, who is seated atthe foot of a couch, most of which is now lost. Beforeher is part of a table. At the foot of the couch is analtar which is approached by a procession of three adultpersons and four children, one of whom leads a ram.Above, a horse's head is seen at a window. The relief isbounded by pilasters and an entablature, above whichroof-tiles are shown. Athens f Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 1 foot 3 inches ; width, 1 foot J inch,Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 35, fig. 1 ; Synopsis, No. 279 (94)Welcker, Alte Denkmacler, II., p. 273 ; cf. Welclcer, loo. cit.,II., pi. 13, No. 24; Pervanoglu, Familienmahl, p. 44, No. 174.715. Fragment of relief, which may be supposed to havebeen similar to the preceding. Sacrificial procession,including a man, of whom but little remains, a woman,two children, and one draped figure, whose sex cannot bo