62 ACCOUNTS, Etc., Ot^ THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



of bronze and the work of an Athenian sculptor named 

 Pyrrhus, as the inscription on the Athenian pedestal testifies. 

 According to Plutarch (Pericles 13) that statue was erected 

 in the time of Pericles, with which date the style of the 

 b] onze statuette may be said to agree. Hitherto the nearest 

 copy of the bronze statue by Pyrrhus that has been identified 

 is a relief on a candelabrum in the Vatican (Visconti, Mus. 

 Pio Clement., IV., pi. 6), but there the Athene holds out in 

 front of her breast a dish feeding a huge serpent which coils 

 round the body of the goddess. But that conception seems 

 less in keeping with the age of Pericles than the new 

 statuette. Greek workmanship. [Journ. Hellen. Stud., XIX., 

 pi. 7.] 



11. Mirror-case with cover, on which is a relief of a female 

 head wearing earrings of a type peculiar to Cyprus and 

 Crete. Crete. 



12. Mirror-case with relief representing a horseman riding 

 to right, his horse rearing. The horse has a saddle-cloth 

 formed of a lion's skin. The rider is a youth wearing a 

 helmet with three crests, a chlamys which floats behind in 

 massive folds, and a thin chiton girt at the waist. The body 

 of the horse is in very high relief, while the rider is in low 

 relief and rendered with much delicacy, suggesting that the 

 work may belong to the period between the Parthenon and 

 the Mausoleum, i.e., the beginning of the fourth century B.C. 

 Found in a tomb at Ells. 



13. Votive right hand, inscribed with a dedication to Zeus 

 Sabazios : ^ ApiaroKXrig lTriaTaTtvaa{q) Ai 2a/3a^tw. As usual in 

 these votive hands, the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger 

 project, the remaining two fingers are doubled back to the 

 palm. Asia Minor. 



14. Implement pointed at both ends. From a Bronze-Age 

 tomb at Clavdia, near Larnaca, Cyprus. 



V. — Terracotta, bone and ivory. 



1-2. Two terracotta figures of Sirens, gilt, with wings 

 spread. Crete. 



3. Ivory disc with two horses confronted, in relief, rearing 

 up over a tall amphora. Crete. 



4. Ivory bust, broken from a statuette, representing a 

 Koman of the ilepublican period wearing a toga. From the 

 Morrison Sale. 



5. Bone plaque with relief of Mercury with his attri» 

 butes. Beit Jabrin^ Palestine, 



6. Terracotta primitive figure of a seated goddess wearing 

 calathos, painted in red, black, and yellow. Thebes. 



7. Archaic aryballos in the form of a bull's head. Thebes, 



