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

XANTHOS. HARPY TOMB. 55of painting and monograms were found on the interior ofthe chamber. (Fellows, Xanthian Marbles, p. 21 ; Birch,Archseologia, xxx., p. 186.)1. West Side.—This relief is divided into two unequalparts by a small doorway which formed the entrance tothe tomb.This doorway may have been filled up with aslab of stone, resembling a funeral stele, and the idea thussuggested was further carried out by the sculpture aboveof a cow giving suck to a calf. (Compare the tomb onthe second frieze of the Xanthian Nereid Monument, Mon.delV Inst., x., pi. 16, fig. 161.)On the left of the entrance is an enthroned female figure.She is large and dignified, and is heavily draped. Theleft hand is raised, the right hand is extended and holdsa bowl ; she is adorned with stephane and bracelets. Thearm of the chair terminates in a ram's head, and is supportedby a seated Sphinx. On the right is a secondenthroned female figure of equal dignity.She is adornedwith a stephane and bracelets. With a graceful, ifaffected gesture of the right hand she holds up a pomegranateflower, and in the left hand she holds a pomegranatefruit. The back of the throne terminates in aswan's head, and the arm terminates in the head of a ram.Three maidens, who are nearly alike, except in theattitudes of the hands, approach this figure. The firstraises her mantle and chiton with the left and righthands respectively. The second has a pomegranate flowerin her left hand, and a pomegranate fruit in her righthand. The third holds up an egg with her right hand,and holds the drapery in her left hand.2. North Side.—An old man, draped and bearded, is seatedon a chair to left ; with the left hand he holds a spear,with the right hand he receives a crested helmet whichis offeredhim.to him by a young warrior, who stands beforeThe warrior has a short chiton, and leather cuirass,