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A Greek Stele in Dublin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Summary

An inscribed Attic marble grave stele of the fourth century B.C. with a family group of four persons in relief has recently come to light near Dublin in what was in the eighteenth-century part of an estate belonging to the first Earl of Charlemont. The stele itself and its place in Charlemont's collection are discussed.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1981

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References

NOTES

1 For accounts of Lord Charlemont's life see Hardy, F., Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont (1810)Google Scholar and Craig, M., The Volunteer Earl (1948)Google Scholar.

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3 A Gothic temple almost certainly built to a design by Johann Heinrich Müntz and entitled by the architect ‘An Egyptian Building’, presumably in reference to the antiquities it was intended to house rather than its style. For a section drawing by Müntz from the Lewis-Walpole Library see Harris, John, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening, 1550-1900, in American Collections (1971)Google Scholar. Müntz was in Rome at the same time as Lord Charlemont and they shared an interest in ancient vases. See McCarthy, Michael: ‘Johann Heinrich Miintz; The Roman Drawings (1749–76)’, in Burlington Magazine, cxix (May 1977), 335–40Google Scholar.

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12 Sotheby's Catalogues. The coins were sold 27th and 28th June 1865. The books and MSS. were to have been offered 10th July and 7 following days, but fire on the premises destroyed a part of the library. Residue sales subsequently took place 11th August and 27th September 1865.

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16 H.M.C. 12th Report, App.X (1891), p. 192.

17 R.I.A. Charlemont Correspondence 12.R. 12, no. 16: Bill of lading. Murphy's cases contained 78 busts and 22 statues sculptured in Rome by Simon Vierpyl: Strickland, W. G., Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913, 2 vols.), pp. 488–9Google Scholar.

18 H.M.C. loc. cit. (note 16). Murphy's boxes from Rome were unlikely to have lain long in a damp place, so presumably those noticed by Adderley were Charlemont's.

19 Ibid., p. 195.

20 Ibid., p. 197. Joseph Wilton's copy of the Medici Venus.

21 Ibid., p. 218.

22 Ibid., 218.

23 Ibid., p. 197.

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