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II. — Acquisitions. 

 I. — Marble. 



1. Sepulchral tablet with an amphora o£ the type known as 

 Loutrophoros in relief, and a pair of doves naturalistically treated. 

 Inscribed with the names of Menalkes and Melantes. 



2. Relief of a family group within a portico, two of the figures 

 inscribed as Metagenes and Philumene, of the deme of Kyda- 

 thenaion. 



3. Fragment of a sacrificial inscription. From Cos. Presented 

 by the Rev. Henry Francis^ Vicar of Tring. (Cf. Paton & Hicks, 

 Inscriptions of Cos, p. 94). 



II. — Gems. 



4. Paste cameo with head of Silenus in white glass on blue 

 ground. From Rome. 



5. Paste cameo with laureate head of Apollo, imitating a 

 sardonyx. From Sicily. 



4 and 5 Presented by Henry Wallis, Esq., R. W.S. 



III. — Silver. 



6. Lamp with four nozzles, in the form of a boat, on which is 

 a figure of the infant Herakles grasping two serpents. Journ. Hell. 

 Stud., xxviii., p. 274, pi. 33. Found in Switzerland. 



IV. — Bronze, Sf-c. 



7. A series of thirty pieces of armour on deposit from the Tower 

 Armoury, including (a) a set of helmet, dagger, and body-armour, 

 from Cumae, (/>) three helmets, (c) a double axe, (d) bronze and 

 iron spear-heads, and lead sling-bolts from Marathon. 



8. Fibula of the early Iron Age (anonymous donation). 



V. — Vases. 



9. Two Apulian vases of the 3rd cent. B.C., in the form of 

 squat jugs with covers and knotted handles ; on one Eros offering 

 a wreath to a woman, on the other Eros seated and a woman stand- 

 ing. Cf. Roemische Mitteilungen, 1914, p. 95. 



10. Amphora of blue glazed ware, of the 2nd cent, after 

 Christ. From North Syria. 



11. Black glazed lekythos with patterns in red body colour. 



12. A series of vases and fragments of pottery from the collec- 

 tion of the late William Ransom of Hitchin, including : 



(a) Jug in form of negro's head, from Etruria. 



