66 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



8. Sardonyx intaglio : Heracles running, with sword and 

 spear. 



7 — 8 from Egypt, 



9. Sard intaglio : a rabbit within the hoop of a finger- 

 ring, a bust, two Cupids, two cranes, and an inscription — 

 FELIC [Felic(is) .^J. 



10. Carnelian scarab intaglio : a soldier on horseback, 

 accompanied by a large war-dog ; beneath, a lion's mask. 

 Probably Ionic work, of the 6th century B.C. From Samos. 

 (There is a gem of similar design, but inferior execution, in 

 the Hermitage Museum at St. Petersburg : Furtwangler, 

 Antike Gemmen, pi. VI.TI., 63.) 



YIL—Jet 



1. Three carved pendants, with loops of bronze wire for 

 suspension. They are respectively in the form of an altar, 

 a pigeon, and a rhinoceros embracing an elephant. From 

 Olbia. 



VIII. — Bone and Ivory. 



1. Statuette of a draped woman, of minute size ; the 

 hands held stiffly by the sides. 



This statuette resembles the primitive ivory figures found 

 in the recent Museum excavations at Ephesus, and is probably 

 from that site. (B.M. Excavations at Ephesus, pi. XXIV., 

 fig. 5.) 



2. Handle of cylindrical shape, carved in relief with 

 figures of a lion and a deer, both galloping. Ionic Greek, 

 5th century B.C. 



3. A series of carvings, including a pointed oval plaque 

 with a relief representing a Dionysiac ceremony, a grotesque 

 head, a pin surmounted by a woman's head in a turreted 

 crown, and other pins. 



IX. — Marble and Stone. 



1. A group of Heracles and the Hydra, representing a 

 rare version of the myth. The Hydra is shown as a serpent, 

 coiled round the left leg of Heracles, but terminating above 

 in the bust of a woman, from whose head smaller snakes 

 issue. This type does not appear in art until the Roman 

 period ; it is found in reliefs decorating sarcophagi, but only 

 two other instances are known of groups in the round, while 

 this example is the clearest at present known. (For the 

 treatment of the subject, see Urlichs in Gorlitz Verhand- 

 lungen, 1890, p. 312.) 



2. Laver consisting of a bowl, decorated inside with a 

 Gorgon's head and outside with signs of the zodiac, and 

 supported by four legs, each of which bears a sculptured 

 panel in the neo-attic style ; the whole stands in a floriated 

 basin which rests on lions' heads. Roman, 1st century B.C. 

 {Trentham Sale Cat, 17 July 1907, No. 855.) 



