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—60 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.short sleeves, and a himation. He has long hair fallingon the shoulders.A group of draped persons moving to right, and composedof the following figures :Man (much mutilated) standing to right and turningto front. He holds a whisk in the right hand, and aspear in the left hand,Man, carrying a spear over the left shoulder, supportingit with Loth hands clasped.Man moving to right but looking back.He carries aspear on the left shoulder ; right hand holds a fold of thedrapery.Man with spear on left shoulder and whisk in righthand.Man with spear on right shoulder ; left hand holds anedge of the himation.Man with spear on left shoulder. The front part onlyof this figure is preserved.The standing figures all wear a long chiton, with longsleeves, and a himation which is wrapped closely aboutthe body, passing under the right arm and over the leftshoulder.The size and treatment of the horses on the frieze, andthe use of whisks by the standing figures, show Orientalinfluences, although the artistic style is distinctly Greek.The upright crest on the head of the horse in the fourthgroup is seen on the horses of Persepolitan sculpture.Compare the Persepolitan casts in the British Museum,assigned to 600 B.C., and Fellows, Lycia, p. 173. The endsof the horses' tails are also tied with ribbon in the sameway as here. Saddle-cloths occur on early vases fromDaphnae (Petrie, Nebesheh and Defenneh, pi. 29, fig. 4),and on painted sarcophagi from Clazomenae (Journ. ofHellen. Studies, iv., p. 19, fig. 14).The traces of Persian fashion make it probable that