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Last year, Dr. Diepolder, in the Münchner Jahrbuch, drew attention to a relief published by Stackelberg in 1836. Stackelberg states that it was found near Megara and was bought by a Dr. MacMichael and sent to England. Nothing has been heard of it since. Stackelberg took the relief to be Hadrianic: Diepolder showed that it was an Attic tombstone from the later part of the fifth century, standing particularly close to the fine monument, recently discovered in Salamis and now in the museum at Piraeus, of the two young soldiers Chairedemos and Lykeas. Diepolder dates both reliefs in the twenties of the century, partly by comparison with the dated relief at Eleusis. Not long after the appearance of Diepolder's article I received a letter from Professor Harrower enclosing a photograph of a marble which he had admired in Cairness House, Aberdeenshire. This proves to be the missing Stackelberg relief. The owner, Colonel C. T. Gordon, kindly gave permission for the photograph to be reproduced in the Journal, and added to his kindness by answering several queries of mine, and by consenting to write a brief account of his grandfather, General Thomas Gordon, who brought the relief to this country, and who played an interesting and important part in the history of modern Greece.
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1 5 (1928), pp. 15–19, Eine Kriegerstele aus Megara.
2 Die Graeber der Hellenen, Pl. 3, 2, and p. 38.
3 Arch. Anz., 1916, p. 141 = Diepolder, p. 18.
4 Ath. Mitt., 19, Pl. 7: phot. Alinari 24797.
5 See Schröder, in Jahrbuch, 29, pp. 166–7Google Scholar.
6 Loc. cit., p. 17.
7 F 157: Furtwängler and Reichhold, Pl. 110, 4, whence Pfuhl, Malerei, fig. 800: phot. Mansell 3261.
8 History of Greece, new ed., ii, p. 158.
9 See below, p. 5.
10 In Leake, , Peloponnesiaca, p. 261Google Scholar. Compare Mure, , Journal of a Tour in Greece, i. p. 178Google Scholar: ‘The General, who at the period of the discovery had already been for some time in command of the district, assured me, that the various excursions he had made for the express purpose of exploring its remains had been equally unsuccessful, and that at last he had only stumbled upon them by accident while on a shooting party and no way occupied with archaeological research.’
11 Morea, p. 382.
12 Handbook to Greece (1884), ii. pp. 475–6, on the Treasury of Atreus.
13 Rheinisches Museum, vi. (1839), p. 272: the article translated into German by L. Hayman.
14 Karl Krazeisen, 1794–1878, infantry general and amateur draughtsman. Hanfstaengl did a series after his drawings, ‘Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhellinen,’ Munich, 1828. The name is misspelt Klaxcisen in the British Museum Catalogue of Engraved Portraits: I owe the identification to Mr. A. M. Hind.