68 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 By Purchase. 



I. — Objects in Gold. 



1. Bandeau, with a small loop at each end and a clasp 

 at the centre in the form of a figure-of-eight knot, which 

 encloses a palmette. The ornamented parts at the centre and 

 each end are encrusted with minute granulated work. 



2. A series of tiny ornaments in stamped gold foil, pierced 

 for attachment. The ornaments are of three types : (1) Victory 

 alighting on the ground ; (2) Nude Bacchante with her head 

 thrown back and a slain kid in her right hand ; (3) Dancing- 

 girl. 



3. Necklace, consisting of a string of circular studded 

 beads and a lunate pendant, set with a garnet and a plasma. 



4. Two pairs of earrings in the form of a small figure of 

 Eros, who wears across his breast a vine-branch with grapes. 

 Above is a garnet set in a disc. One pair has below a pendant 

 in the form of a Panathenaic amphora. 



3, 4 are from a tomb near Damascus in Syria. 



5. Diadem, stamped with patterns in relief. In the centre 

 are the capital and base of an Ionic column, of which the 

 shaft was probably formed by an inlaid stone, now lost. On 

 either side is seated a wmged Victory, and beyond her is a 

 series of groups composed of a winged and horned lion on 

 either side of a winged female figure, whose legs terminate 

 in spirals of which she holds the ends. A similar type of 

 composite figure may be seen in the Museum on the capital 

 of a column from Salamis in Cyprus; see Catalogue of 

 Sculpture, II., No. 1510, pi. XXVII. 



6. Ring, with engraved design of a woman seated on the 

 «terri of a ship, by the side of which a dolphin is plunging; 

 this group is almost identical with the type of certain coins 

 of Histisea (see Gat. Photia6.es, pi. iii., No. 484). 



II. — Silver. 



1. Bangle of six coils which terminate in the heads of 

 snakes. The central coil is inscribed KAHTIOZ, KXr/r<oc. 

 From Vounitza in Acarnania. 



III. — Bronze, 



1. Archaic statuette of half -crouching Seilenos. From 

 Civita Castellana. See Tyszkiewicz Sale Catalogue, 1898, 

 pi. XI., No. 124 ; Burlington Fine Arts Gluh, 1904, p. 45, 

 No. 34, pi. LI. 



2. Statuette of a Seilenos, dancing with arms extended. 

 First part of the 5th century B.C. 



