GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 55 



By Purchase. 



I. — Objects in gold. 



1. Sphendone with floral designs architecturally treated ; 

 fourth-century B. c. 



2. Belt or head-band in fragments, with embossed lines. 



3. Chain, of delicate workmanship, ending in lions' heads' 

 with pendants in the form of shells. 



4. Oval pendant or bezel of ring, with embossed figure of 

 Eros and filagree work. 



5. Head of hair-pin formed of two negroes' heads back to 

 back. 



6-7. Two heads of hair-pins in form of female head. 



8-22. Fifteen gold ornaments or fragments of chains and 

 rings. 



1-22. Found in a tomb at Sta. Eufemia del Golfo in 

 Calabria {see Lenormant, La Grande-Grece, iii., p. 98). 



23. Seal in form of ram's head, with design of a wolf-man 

 in combat with a lion. Poli-tis-Chrysokhou, Cyprus. 



24. Ring with intaglio design of biga. Cyprus. 



25. Ring with intaglio ; Athene Nikephoros. 



26. Ring with bezel on which is engraved a figure of 

 Fortuna. 



27. Earring ending in lion's head. 



28. Pair of earrings of twisted wire ending in figures of 

 Cupid. (25-28. From Crete). 



29. Pair of earrings ending in tigers' heads. 



30. Pair of earrings ending in female busts. 



31. Chain of finely-wrought links, ending in lions' heads. 



. 32. Ring with garnet intaglio ; bust of Victory. Cyprus.- 



II. — Silver. 

 Pin with inscription in Argive characters, TAMBEPAM, 

 Tac"Hpac. From Argolis. 



III. — Bronze. 

 ■ 1. Term of Heracles, muffled in the lion's skin. Halicar- 

 nassos. 



2. Archaic statuette of nude beardless man. Thebes. 



3. Tablet with archaic Greek inscription, being an instru- 

 ment of colonisation between the Naupactians and Locrians 

 (Roberts, Greek Epigraphy, i., No. 231). 



4. Tablet with archaic Greek inscription ; part of a treaty 

 of reprisals between the towns of Chaleion and Oeantheia, 



0.125. D 4 on 



