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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2015
Miss W. Lamb has kindly asked me to publish the terracotta sarcophagus in Cambridge, which comes from Rhodes. Fig. 1 explains the system of reference to the various parts of the face of the typical Clazomenian sarophagus. Unless it is otherwise stated, figures and heads of men and animals face towards the centre of the sarcophagus.
The sarcophagi listed below consist of five found in Rhodes and presumed to be of local manufacture, and of three probably from Clazomenae which are loosely related.
1 For information and for photographs reproduced here I should like to thank the authorities of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum at Leyden, Dr. R. Heidenreich and Mr. E. A. Lane. To Professor T. B. L. Webster I am particularly grateful for help and criticism; to Dr. L. Laurenzi for his kindness to me in Rhodes.
2 Another is mentioned as coming from Rhodes, BCH 1913, 416, n. 1. Pfuhl's three sarcophagi from Rhodes (MuZ I. 165) are his and nos. 1 and 2.
3 The cheek-pieces are up. The lines across the chest represent folds of drapery coming across from the shoulder.
4 This provenance seems now to be accepted: see Kjellberg, , JdI 1926, 54, n. 5Google Scholar.
5 E.g. on Munich 7540 (SP: JdI 1905, 189, fig. 1Google Scholar; JHS 1930, 81, fig. 1Google Scholar) and on a sarcophagus of similar shape in Leyden (HP).
6 BCH 1910, pl. 11, 1.
7 That referred to in n. 5.
8 JdI 1932, 3, fig. 1.Google Scholar
9 JdI 1926, 54, n. 5.Google Scholar
10 Not so on no. 6. Perhaps the S-shaped blobs occur also on a sarcophagus once in the Evangelical School, Smyrna (Dugas, , BCH 1910, 475–6, no. 5Google Scholar).
11 For the two-bodied sphinx compare a fragmentary sarcophagus in Kiel (UP: Auktionskatalog Helbing, 1910, no. 352).
12 These terms are used as in BSA xxxiv. 2, n. 1.
13 JdI 1933, 55–69, especially 63–68.
14 Cf. Kjellberg, , Jdl 1926, 54, n. 5Google Scholar:— ‘kaum vor 480.’
15 I am indebted to Professor J. D. Beazley for this attribution and dating.
16 First suggested, apparently, by Meurer, , JdI 1902, 65–68Google Scholar. So also Van Hoorn, , de Vita atque Cultu Puerorum, 95–96Google Scholar: Pfuhl, , MuZ I. 166Google Scholar (‘Ägyptizismus … erschreckend ungriechisch’): Kjellberg, , JdI 1926, 52–53Google Scholar—the shape with flattened foot seems to be the criterion for his Egyptianising group B.
17 AM 1928, 17–47Google Scholar, die Darstellungen der Prothesis.
18 Op. cit., 32 and 44, no. 94, Beilage 16.
19 Kjellberg, , JdI 1926, 53Google Scholar dates Clazomenian sarcophagi primarily by shape, and his arguments from decoration are weak. In general I agree with Rumpf, , JdI 1933, 63–65Google Scholar.
20 Pfuhl, , MuZ I. 166Google Scholar.
