A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

—XANTHOS. 53ground. The head and fore-quarters of the lion arewanting.Limestone ;height, 3 feet 4| inches ; width, 3 feet 4 inches. About3 inches appear to be wanting on the left of the slab. PrachoT,p'. 5, fig. 2 ; Mu-eum of Class. Antiq., I., p. 251 ; Dieulafoy, L'ArtAnt. de la Perse, II., pi. 18, fig. 2 ; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. lOlA.91, 92. Gable end of a tomb. On each side of a doorway is aseated Sphinx. Above the lintel of the door is a spacewhich may have held a relief, now wanting.Xanthos.91. The Sphinx on the left wears a stephan^; a tress ofhair falls on the shoulder. There are faint traces ofpaint on the wing. The hind-quarters are missing.Limestone; height, 2 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Thejoint of the stone is at the left side of the door. Prachov, pi. 4,fig. 2.92. The Sphinx on the right has her hair bound with anarrow taenia. There are traces of paint on the wing.The hind-quarters are wanting.Limestone ; height, 2 feet 8 inches ; width, 3 feet 1 inch. About(i inches are lost from the left of this slab. Prachov, pi. 4, fig 1(the head only).93. Gable end of a tomb. In the centre of the relief is alow column, with an Ionic capital, of peculiar form. ASiren stands to the front, on the column. She wears ashort chiton, girt at the waist and with loose sleeves.She has spreading wings and tail, and bird's legs, buthuman arms which are extended in front of the wings.The head is wanting.On each side of the column is a seated male figure. Onthe left is a beardless elderly man, wearing himation andchiton, with staff in left hand and right hand extended.On the right is a bearded old man, wearing chiton andhimation, with staff in right hand and left hand extended.The back of the head is in part broken away ;part was