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GREEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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him: under the chair of the seated Deity is a bear. Under the 
Harpy on the right is a small female figure kneeling in a suppliant 
attitude. Between the pair of Harpies on the opposite side of the 
monument is a seated divinity of uncertain sex, in front of whom a 
draped female figure stands offering a dove. The seated divinity holds 
in the left hand a pomegranate fruit, in the right a fruit or an egg. 
On the side now facing the North, but which was originally the 
West side of the tomb, are two goddesses seated on thrones facing 
each other. The one on the right holds in her right hand the flower, 
and in her left the fruit of the pomegranate. The figure opposite 
holds in her right hand a phiale. In front of this figure is a cow 
suckling her calf, below which is a small oblong aperture through 
which offerings must have been introduced into the sepulchral chamber. 
On the right of this opening are three draped female figures advancing 
in single file towards the goddess who holds the pomegranate fruit 
and flower. The second of the advancing females holds in her right 
hand a fruit, in her left a flower of the pomegranate ; the third holds 
up in her right hand an oviform object, thought to be an egg. The 
goddess to whom these figures advance may be Persephone, and the 
goddess behind them Demeter. 
On the South side is a male Deity seated on a throne, and holding 
in his right hand a pomegranate flower, before whom stands a smaller 
draped figure offering a cock. Behind this smaller figure a draped 
male figure, holding a staff' in his left hand, advances, accompanied by a 
hound. Behind the seated Deity two draped female figures advance ; 
the foremost of these holds in her left hand a pomegranate fruit. 
The small figures at the angles carried off by the Harpies have been 
thought to be the daughters of the Lycianhero, Pandareus. Another 
conjecture is that these figures represent the souls of mortals snatched 
away by untimely death. The subjects of the reliefs on the four sides 
of this tomb have all probably a funereal import, but archaeologists 
differ widely in their explanations. See Braun, Annali of Roman 
Institute, xvi. p. 133; E. Curtius, in Archaologische Zeitung, 1855, 
p. 1, pi. 73, and 1868, p. 10: Friederichs, Bausteine, I. p. 37. 
Nos. 2-13. Along the North and South sides of the Room are 
arranged ten seated figures, a lion and a Sphinx, brought from the 
Sacred Way leading up to the temple of Apollo at Branchidae, in 1858. 
(See Newton, Hist, of Discoveries, &c, II. Part 2, p. 527.) These 
figures are among the earliest and most important extant specimens of 
Greek sculpture in marble. Their date probably ranges from B.C. 580 
to B.C. 520. On the back of the lion (No. 13) is an inscription in 
five lines, and in very ancient characters, containing a dedication of 
certain statues as a tenth to Apollo, by several persons who were prob- 
ably citizens of Miletus. 
One of the seated figures (No. 7) represents, as we learn from its 
inscription, Chares, ruler of Teichioussa, who dedicated this statue of 
himself to Apollo. This is the oldest known portrait statue in Greek 
art. On another of the figures (No. 4) is part of the name of the 
sculptor who made it. 
