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4. Archaic fibula of similar form and style ; on one side is 

 represented the combat of Heracles with the Hydra, which 

 has six heads ; the crab of Hera is about to seize his right 

 foot, and lolaos is assisting him ; on the right is a horse with 

 ornamental saddle-cloth. On the other side are figures of 

 five warriors, a one-horse chariot, with a woman standing at 

 the horses' heads, and a lion devouring a man or animal. In 

 the centre of each side is a large rosette, and in the field 

 are birds and fishes. The subject of Heracles and the Hydra 

 is unique as a mythological scene at this period ; it is there- 

 fore the oldest known instance of this particular subject in 

 Greek art, the next being the poros pediment found on the 

 Acropolis of Athens (Ephem. Archaeol. 1884, pi. 7). [Cata- 

 logue of Bronzes, p. 374.] Greece. 



5. Disc engraved with a dedicatory inscription by ExoVdas(?) 

 to the Dioscuri in two lines of verse, in the Doric dialect and 

 alphabet of the Ionian islands (sixth century B.C.) : 'Exo-ot?a(c) 

 fx avWr}Ke Aiog KOvpotv uejaXoio -)(^uXKeov m viKatje Ke(f)aXXavaQ 

 /ixeyadviuovg. (Compare Hom. Hymn, in Diosc. 33,8, and Iliad, 

 ii. 631). Published in Tyszkiewicz Coll., pi. 27, and Eevue 

 Archeol. xviii. (1891), pi. 18, p. 45. Cephallonia (?j. 



6 Archaic head, apparently Etruscan under Greek influence, 

 with elaborately-curled hair ; cast solid. Compare early 

 coins of Tarentum. Tyszkiewicz Coll. pi. 13* Sale Cat., 

 No. ]19. Etruria. 



7. Etruscan mirror, about 200 B.C., with engraved design 

 of a youth and girl playing at duodecim scripta (back- 

 gammon) ; above the girl is inscribed DEVINCAM TED (" I 

 shall beat you ") ; above the youth, OPEINOD (" I think 

 so"). Tyszkiewicz Coll. pi. 28.; Sale Cat., No. 131. 

 Praeneste. 



8. Winged goddess kneeling ; archaic Greek work, very 

 minute and refined. Tyszkiewicz Coll., Sale Cat., No. 12.5. 

 Civita Lavinia (Lanuvium). 



5-8. Froin the Tyszkieiuicz Collection. 



9. Statuette of Heracles, wreathed, with club and lion's 

 skin. Gaza. 



10. Statuette of Athene looking down at a small serpent 

 held upon her breast by her right hand ; the left arm falls by 

 her side, the hand open outwards as if it had held a phiale. She 

 stands resting on the right leg, the left foot thrown back. The 

 body is bent forward and the head and chest thrown back. 

 The aegis has no Gorgoneion, but has a border of snakes, and 

 does not descend below the girdle, which also is formed of 

 snakes. The chiton is open down the right side as in the 

 copies of the Athene Parthenos. The action of this figure 

 answers to that of Hygieia, and as her attitude, resting on 

 the right foot with the left thrown well back, corresponds to 

 the marks of the feet on the pedestal of a bronze statue of 

 Athene Hygieia beside the Propylaea at Athens it seems 

 certain that we have here a coj^y of that statue, which was 



