ON AN ALABASTER SCULPTURE. 8 1 



tions above and below the central head, but especially in the 

 latter, for in three examples, including Mr. Spilsbury's, the 

 sculpture is complete without any representation about the upper 

 rim of the circular dish. 



The following are the examples that we have been able to 

 enumerate : — 



I. Preserved at Ratcliffe College, "Leicester.* Below — upper 

 half of naked figure rising from an altar-shaped sepulchre, the left 

 hand straight down with extended palm, the right hand on the 

 breast. Above — the sculpture terminates with the rim of the dish. 



II. The property of Rev. B. W. Spilsbury. See Plate I. of 

 this journal. Below — lamb on clasped book or missal. Above — 

 same as No. I. 



III. Exhibited by Mr. Nightingale, of Wilton, to the 

 Archaeological Institute, in 1855. Described and illustrated in 

 No. xlvi. of the Archceo logical Journal. Found at Old Sarum. 

 Below — upper half of naked figure rising from an altar-shaped 

 sepulchre, with hands extended. Above — small naked figure in 

 radiated vesica-shaped medallion, upheld by two angels. 



IV. Exhibited by Mr. David Wells to the Society of Antiquaries 

 in 1789. Said to have originally belonged to the Fitzherberts, of 

 Swynnerton. Engraved in (i) Schnebbelie's Antiquaries Museum, 

 (2) in Nichols' History of Leicestershire, vol. iv., part ii., p. 461, 

 and in (3) Fosbroke's Encyclopedia of Antiquities, p. 683. Below — 

 figure naked to waist, rising, as above, from tomb, on the further 

 edge of which it is apparently seated, with the rest of the figure 

 hidden within the tomb ; the hands are crossed. Above— two- 

 saints appearing above the rim of the dish, the one on the sinister 

 defaced, the one on the dexter side (from the wheel of martyrdom), 

 St. Catharine. 



V. In the Ashmolean Museum. Not hitherto described. 

 Label attached only partly legible — " ... the Vera Icon . . . 

 date, 1,400 about. Arundel Marble ..." Below— a. similar 



* The Rev. Joseph Hirst has most kindly sent us a full-sized coloured, 

 drawing of this example. 



