GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITCES. 59 



VIII. A collection of drawings of ancient sculptures, 

 formerly in the possession of Sir A. W. Franks, K.C.B. 

 Presented by G. H. Read, Esq. 



By Purchase. 

 I. — Objects in gold. 



1. Finger-ring with garnet setting, inscribed on the bezel 

 4)ANYAIZ. Crete. 



2. Finger-ring with a spear-head incised on the bezel 

 between the letters 1 A, which may denote some town in 

 Crete. Crete. 



3. King of the Mycenaean period, with embossed bulls' 

 heads and granulated patterns. Cyprus : probably from 

 Enkomi. 



4. Ring, engraved on the bezel with a winged Hippocamp : 

 end of fifth century B.C. Reggio. 



5. Ring, engraved on the bezel with the figure of a priestess 

 crowning a triple lamp on a high stand. TerranuovOj, 

 Sicily. 



6. Diadem of Greek workmanship, third century B.C. In 

 the centre is the figure of a boy wearing wreath and chain, 

 holding a jug and phiale ; the rest is ornamented with 

 rosettes and palmettes in filagree, partly inlaid with blue 

 enamel (Tyszkiewicz Coll. pi. 1, fig. 4; Sale Cat. pi. 22). 

 Magna Grcecia From the Tyszkiewicz Collection. 



II. — Silver. 



1. Earring, on which are two medallions, with heads of 

 Athene, embossed in gold ; the face of Athene is to the front ; 

 she wears a helmet with triple crest like the Athene Par- 

 thenos. Crete. 



2. Pin with head in the form of a lamp, set with two 

 globules of plasma. Samsun. 



3. Roll of bracteate silver, with Greek inscription, probably 

 a charm, set in a silver cylinder, for suspension round the 

 neck. 



111.— Marble. 

 1. Head of a youth, bound with a narrow diadem, the hair 

 parted in the middle, falling in a mass of curls on the temples, 

 and gathered into a thick roll behind, resembling in these 

 respects and in the type of face a marble head in Munich 

 fFurtwaengler, Meisterwerke, p. 115) which has been called 

 lacchos, from its general likeness to the head of that divine 

 youth on the well-known marble relief from Eleusis, now in 

 Athens. A similar rendering of the hair and a resemblance in 

 the type of face occur in two marble statues of Demeter, the 

 one at Cherchel and the other in Berlin (Kekule von Stra- 

 donitz, Winckelmannsfestprogr. 1897). The newly-acquired 

 head was found in Rome, and is a Graeco-Roman copy, 

 probably from an original by an Athenian sculptor shortly 

 after the time of Pheidias. The manner in which the front 



