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2. A pair of Lecythi, Attic red-figure ware. The bodies are 

 plain ; on the shoulder of one is an Eros flying with a casket 

 in his hands, and on the other a girl seated with the casket 

 open on h^r knees. 



3. Lecythos, white ground, with design of a woman washing 

 her hands. The neck and handle are broken away. 



(2 and 3 from the Rome Collection.) 



4. Cylix, with thick stem, small hollow foot and no handles. 

 On the outside are painted horizontal bands ; inside, irregular 

 plant designs, perhaps in imitation of Egyptian glazed ware. 



5. Jar with lid, plain and unpainted. In the lid and rim 

 are holes for tying. 



(4 and 5 from Rhodes.) 



6. Three small unpainted jugs, with incised geometric 

 decoration. From Boeotia. 



7. Two Cypriote jugs, red ware painted in black with 

 concentric circles and figures of goat and stag. 



8. Lamp (modern), with design taken from a group of youths 

 holding back a cow on the south frieze of the Parthenon. 



YIU.— Terracotta. 



1. Statuette of a girl stepping forward, accompanied by 

 Eros, who is beating a tambourine. The whole surface is 

 covered with a thick lustrous slip or enamel, which is painted 

 in various colours ; the eyes are drawn in black outline. Greek 

 work, about 3rd century B.C. From Olbia on the Black Sea. 



2. A series of seven heads broken from statuettes of 

 Hellenistic style. From Smyrna. 



3. Statuette of a boy holding strigil and aryballos. Greek, 

 4th century B.C. From Mount Pangaios. 



4. Statuette of a shepherd boy sleeping. He wears a 

 Phrygian cap and holds a Pan's pipe ; by his side is a goat. 

 From Amphipolis. 



5. Statuette of a dog running with a hare in his mouth. 

 Early Greek style. From a tomb at Thebes. 



6. Group decorating a small vase : a Seilenos with hairy 

 skin, holding in his right hand a large thyrsos and leading with 

 his left a small boy. Hellenistic period. 



IX.— Wood, &c. 

 The furniture of a tomb found in Bulgaria. The various 

 pieces are : — 



1. A circular mirror, with a disc of speculum metal which is 

 surrounded by an openwork border of gilt bronze ; the design 

 consists of a scroll of vine-branches and peacocks. On the 

 wooden back is a hinged pin, also of wood, which served as a 

 leg to support the mirror. 



2. Several smaller instruments of the toilet : a long pin, 

 a double comb, a scraping implement with case in the shape of 

 an eared label, and two cylindrical toilet boxes. 



