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THE SEPULCHRAL BANQUET. 337right hand, stands with his left hand over an altar. Onthe right side of the altar was a male figure making alibation. Only the right hand with the saucer, and theright foot remain. On the left a bearded man stands,with his right hand raised. Athens f Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 6 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches.Synopsis No. 380 (101) ; Mus. Marbles, IX., pi. 37, fig. 1.719. Group of persons about to sacrifice ; from the left side ofOn the right of the fragment is a mana sepulchral relief.with a large amphora, turned to the right. Behind himare two men and two women, all standing as worshippers.— Mytilene.Marble; height, 10 inches; width, 11 inches. Conze, Lesbos, p. 10,Note 3, No. 1.720. Fragment of relief with banquet and serpent. A manreclines on a couch and pours a libation from a bowl.Before the couch is a table with food. A serpent is coUedbeneath the table and stretches its head towards the bowl.On the left is the hand holding a casket (jpyxis) of awoman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch.The relief is bounded by pilasters, an entablature and aroof.Marble ; height, 1 foot 1 inch ; width, 9 inches.721. Relief with a female figure of the type of the banquetreliefs. A woman seated, wearing a lofty head-dress(jpolos), holds an ivy-leaf fan in her lefthand, and withthe right hand appears to be offering a cup to a serpent.— Athena ? Elgin Coll.Pentelic marble ; height, 2 feet 3^ inches ; width, I foot 5| inches.Mus. Mtrbles, IX., pi. 38, fig. 3 ; Synopsis, No. 278 (238) ; Ellis,Elgin Marines, II., p. 127, No. 278.722. Relief with banquet. A man reclines on a couch witha cup in his left hand. Before him is a table withz