86 ATHENS. 
CHAP, is singular that the figure of Hercules is draped. 
vL_, The other exhibits a female figure, seated, to 
whom a male is presenting a new-born infant. 
The Grecians were accustomed to consign their 
newly-born children to the tutelar care of some 
Deity, upon the fifth day after their birth : upon 
this occasion they went in white robes, with 
their feet bare. But the figure in this bas-relief 
carrying the child may allude to a circumstance 
which occurred in the life of Caligula, who 
placed his infant daughter, Livia Drusilla, in the 
lap of the protecting Minerva. The sculpture is 
remarkable for the ease and freedom which it 
displays. It is a very uncommon circumstance 
to have these things pointed out by a Turk: 
but we had this good luck; for passing the 
door of a Turkish house, its owner hailed us 
with the usual appellation, " Djoivrs! here is 
some rubbish suited to your taste: take it off my 
premises r He had found in his garden, among 
some old foundations, the half of a marble las- 
relief, which represented the annual procession 
of the Athenian citizens, with their youth, to the 
ceremony of initiation at Eleusis; and for a 
trifle he allowed us to remove it, seeming to be 
quite happy in getting rid of a stone on which 
human figures were delineated. We saw also, 
in one of the streets, an antient marble Stele* 
