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 384 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. which Etruscan tombs have disclosed ; l and, lastly, those instances to which reference has already been made as occurring on golden pieces of jewellery found at Corinth. 2 The theme is one among the most in favour with nascent plastic art, and was sug- gested by the spectacle of those martial pomps, composed of the associates in arms and retainers of the chief whom they mourned FIG. 276. Tomb at Xanthus. British Museum. Small side. Length I m. 13 c. Drawn by St. Elme Gautier. as they moved around his funereal pile, the pathetic details of which are recorded in the Iliad? To the same class of monuments belong other reliefs, properly put next to the above in the British Museum, and which would seem to rank among the oldest specimens that have come to us from Xanthus (Figs. 276-280).* Unfortunately the stone or stela which served as background has been destroyed, hence no 1 Hist, of Art, torn. iii. Figs. 626, 627. 2 FURTHWAENGLER, " Archaischer Goldschmiick " (Archa. Zeitung, 1884, pp. 99-114). 8 Iliad) xxiii. 134. 4 A certain number of lions are left in Xanthus, which look fully as archaic as those in the British Museum (BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. Plate XXVIII.).