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54. Carnelian : Cupid keeping two cocks from fighting ; in 

 his right hand wreath and palm-branch. Inscribed COMVS. 



55. Plasma : head of Epicurus (?) to right. Inscribed 

 NAePKOY. The inscription seems modern. (Brunn, Griech. 

 Kiinstler, II., p. 622.) 



56. Sard : youthful male head to left bound with diadem. 

 Inscribed ANTONI .... 



57. Black jasper: cow moving to right; behind stands a 

 Cupid ploughing (?). Inscribed YFEIA. 



58. Sard with cable border : Achilles supporting Pen- 

 thesilea to left ; Penthesilea has Phrygian cap and axe ; 

 Achilles wears helmet and holds spear in left hand. Inscribed 

 L.V.F. 



59. Chalcedony : portrait head of old man in profile to 

 right, resembling the marble head from Priene (Antiquities of 

 Ionia, pt. iv., pi. 20, p. 34), which, it has been suggested, may 

 be one of the Diadochi. 



60. Garnet : female portrait head in profile to right ; hair 

 braided over crown of head and fastened in small knot 

 behind. 



61. Ked jasper : portrait head of Maecenas in profile to left ; 

 draped round neck. 



62. Red jasper : Hercules leading Cerberus from Hades, the 

 mouth of which is shown ; the three heads only visible of 

 Cerberus. Hercules has club and lion's skin. (Raspe, 5888.) 



63. Amethyst : portrait head, perhaps of Hadrian, in profile 

 to right. 



64. Carnelian : portrait head of young man in profile to right 

 with slight beard and moustache, resembling the head on the 

 large St. Petersburg cameo identified by Miiller (Denkmaler, 

 No. 226^) as Ptolemy the First, and by Visconti (Icon. Grecque, 

 III., pi. 53, No. 3) as Ptolemy Philadelphos. 



65. Burnt carnelian : portrait bust of Lucius Verusin profile 

 to right. 



66. Sard : Satyr kneeling to left, making wreath of ivy ; 

 behind him are the remains of the inscription TEYKPOY 

 which has been nearly rubbed out by polishing. Formerly in 

 the collection of Baron Stosch (Winckelmann, Pierresde Stosch 

 cl. II., No. 1494 ; Kohler, III. p. 174 ; Brunn, Griech. Kiinstler, 

 II., p. 532). 



67. Sard : Mercury standing beside altar ; caduceus in 

 right hand ; wears chlamys and petasus ; mounted in cinque- 

 cento enamel. 



68. Sard : Satyr dancing to right ; thyrsus in left hand ; 



right 



