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"VIII. — Ivories. 



1. Plaque, with a design in low relief of a lion devouring 

 an ibex. 



2. Plaque, made up of two fragments, with a design in 

 low relief. On the upper part is a bearded Seilenos, reclining 

 and drinking out of a horn. On the lower part is a 

 crouching lion ; on his back are the ends of two flutes and in 

 front a long tail, perhaps of a Seilenos. 



These two plaques are rare example's of the Ionian art of 

 ivory-carving at the beginning of the 5th century B.C. 

 Similar plaques are in the Louvre and at Florence. 



3. Three ornaments carved in the form of boys, shown in 

 various attitudes. 



By Donation. 



I. Three fragments of columns in green limestone, deco- 

 rated with zigzag bands and spirals. These fragments form 

 the greater part of the two columns, which stood on either 

 side of the entrance to the " Treasury of Atreus " at Mycense. 



Presented by the Most Hon. the Marquess of Sligo. 



II. Three plaster casts of fragments of a column and of 

 the capitals oE the two Mycenaean columns. 



Presented by the Greek Government, through 



M. Cavvadias, Ephor-General of Antiquities. 



III. Plaster cast of a fragment of one of the capitals of 

 the Mycenaean columns. 



Presentedj by the Karlsruhe Museum. 



IV. A series of archaic terra-cotta statuettes, excavated 

 in 1894 at Kamelarga in Cyprus. See Journal of Hellenic 

 Studies, XVII., pp. 164 f. 



Presented by J. L. Myres, Esq. 



V. A series ot objects found in the rubbish mounds at 

 Behnesa (Oxyrhyncus), with papyri of the 1st to the 5th 

 centuries A.D. 



Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. 



VI. Gold finger-ring: within the hollow bezel a gold plate 

 has been inserted, bearing a design in relief representing the 

 temple of Aphrodite at Paphos. Formerly in the Tyszkiewicz 

 Collection ; See Sale Catalogue, 1898, No. 195. 



Presented by a Friend of the Museum. 



VII. Bronze boat-shaped fibula, decorated with incised 

 chevrons and concentric circles. From Orvieto. 



Presented by Mrs. W. Kemp-Welch, 



