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part of the hair is separated from the back part is suggestive 

 of a follower of the sculptor Calamis. The rendering of the 

 eyelids and eyebrows, and of the hair on the brow and temples, 

 seems to indicate an original in bronze. 



2. Head of a Roman, of the Republican period, bald, beard- 

 less, the lips compressed, the genc^ral aspect indicating a man 

 of advanced years and of some distinction. Found in Rome. 



3. Figure of Aphrodite, a copy of the type of the Cnidian 

 Aphrodite by Praxiteles, as seen on the coins of Cnidus and 

 in a number of marble copies, among which the one in the 

 Vatican is accepted as the best. The present example is in 

 many points poor, but the torso retains something of the 

 style of Praxiteles, while the rendering of the hair seems 

 fairly true to the original, as is also the drapery, held out by 

 the left hand and falling over a vase on the ground. The 

 face has been heavily worked over in modern times. 



4. Figure of Aphrodite, after the Venus dei Medici. 

 0-4, Found in Athens in 1811, acquired there hy 



the late Lord Broughton (John Cam, Hohhouse) 



and sent home hy Lord Byron. 

 IV. — Bronze. 



1. Mirror with stand, Greek workmanship of the end of 

 the fifth century B.C. ; the stand is in the form of a figure of 

 Aphrodite on a plinth borne by two Pegasi ; she is draped, 

 and holds a dove in her right hand. On each side of her 

 head is a winged Eros. The date is about 450 B.C., and the 

 place where this bronze had been made was probably Corinth, 

 from the association of Aphrodite with Pegasus on the coins 

 of that city. It is uncertain whether the plinth supported 

 by the Pegasi is to be taken as a suggestion of a chariot, in 

 which the goddess is standing, or whether the Pegasus is not 

 here merely a symbol of the goddess, duplicated as on the 

 helmet of Athene. The Museum already possessed an archaic 

 bronze statuette of Cybele standing on a similar plinth sup- 

 ported by two lions. [Bulletin de Corr. Hellen , 1898, pi. 1.] 



2. Bull of the Apis type, with saddlecloth, Mdnged scara- 

 baeus, and a hawk incised on the back, uraeus and solar disc 

 on the head, and necklace. On the plinth is inscribed in 

 archaic letters TOIPANEPIMANEZTAZEZOpVAHZ 

 T(o YlavtiTL (i.e., Ba-en-ptah ?) ju' avtaraaa SwKuSrjf. From a 

 Greek site in the Delta of Egypt: formerly in the possession 

 of Dr. Mead. 



3. Archaic fibula of the Boeotian geometrical type, with 

 crescent-shaped vertical bow, six spikes round the head, and 

 spreading foot ; on either side are incised designs ; on one, 

 a rosette in the centre, and figures of women, ducks, fishes, 

 &c. ; on the other, a ship with lantern at the masthead 

 (compare Ann. dell' Inst. 1880, pi. I., figs. 1-5, and Helbig, 

 Homer. Epos, 2nd edn, p. 46). On it are a steersman steering 

 with his foot and a man tying a rope to the forecastle, 

 [Catalogue of Bronzes, p. 372.] Greece, 



