Volume 1

A catalogue of sculptures by the successors of Pheidias, in the British Museum : Part 3 / by A.H. Smith.

  • British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of sculptures by the successors of Pheidias, in the British Museum : Part 3 / by A.H. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    812. Votive tablet, dedicated by a priestess called Claudia Ageta, on which are sculptured in relief various articles of the toilet. In the centre is a bowl inscribed with the name of the priestess, KAan(St'a) ’Ayrjra 'AvTardrpov, iipeca ; round it are the following objects :—On the left of the bowl, a shell to hold unguents, two mirrors (one much smaller than the other), a small comb, a hair-pin, a small bottle for unguents, a small oval tray with a lid, contain- ing a sponge, a larger bottle, a cylindrical object, and a ciicular object like a stud; above the bowl is a small elliptical box, a bottle, and an object which appears to be a net for the hair; below are a comb, two bodkins, and a strigil. On the right of the bowl are two pairs of shoes, two studs linked together, a small mortar (in which is a pestle like a bent thumb), a spoon, and a small oblong box with a lid, into which are fitted six little circular boxes or bottles. Round these sculptured objects runs a raised frame richly ornamented with fir-cones, ivy, ears of corn, and pomegianates, and with a coiled snake in its lower side.—From Slavochori in Laconia (cf. No. 811). Presented by the fifth Earl of Aberdeen, 1861. Marble ; height, 2 feet 3J inches ; width, 3 feet 6 inches. Walpole’s Memoirs relating to Turkey, 1817,1., p. 446 ; G.I.G., 1466 ; Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., CXLII.; Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures, Part II., No. 12 ; Wolters, No. 1851. 813. Fragment of a votive relief dedicated by a victor in a torch race. On the right a youth, with a whisk for sprinkling, and a man stand at an altar. The head of the man is lost. Three nude athletes, of whom two are bearded, stand on the left conversing. Above is an en- tablatuie with the dedicatory inscription : O Seiva A.ja^i7rdSi viKrjcras, yvp.vacnapx<ov [aviOrjKev].—Athens. Strangford Coll. Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 5£ inches; width, 1 foot i inch. C.I.G., 257 ; Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., XU.; C./.A., II., 1221.