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3. A rectangular box with mitred and dovetailed joints and 

 grooved edges to take a sliding lid, which is missing. In the 

 £ox are a dozen walnuts and four small chestnuts. 



4. Six fragments of woollen cloth, black and with dark and 

 light brown stripes. The date of the tomb appears to be the 

 2nd or 3rd century A.D. 



By Donation. 



I. Plaster cast from a marble head of Heracles, who is 

 represented as a beardless youth. The original was found in a 

 wall at Sparta. (American Journ. Arch., XIII (1909). no, 2, 

 pi. IV.) 



Presented by W. R. Newbold, Esq., of the University 



of Pennsylvania. 



II. A bronze foot of a vase, in the form of a lion's paw and 

 Jiead, and four bronze handles, also from a vase. 



Presented by Sir A. Biliotti, k.c.m.g. 



III. Marble sepulchral stele of Melitta, formerly in the 

 '<xuilford Collection and then lost. It bears a relief represent- 

 ing the nurse, Melitta, daughter of Apollodoros, with a child, 

 Hippostrate, who erected the monument. The epitaph is 

 -composed in very faulty hexameters, (/.(r., II., 2729 ; compare 

 Michaelis in Hellenic Journal, VI., p. 47.) 



Presented by Messrs. W. Cubitt and Company, Ltd. 



IV. A series of thirty-six fragments of Roman pottery, 

 ■(Arretine ware), bearing the stamps of the makers. From the 

 CJerro Muriano copper mine, near Cordova. 



Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., f.s.a. 



T. Limestone sepulchral stele, with relief of a boy holding 

 ■a cock and a bunch of grapes and standing on a ram. By his 

 side is a basket of fruit. Rough provincial work of the late 

 Roman period. From Algeria. 



Presented by the Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild. 



VI. Gold necklace, composed of eight plaques, each stamped 

 with a design of Victory, driving a two-horsed chariot, and fifteen 

 oval beads stamped with double palmettes ; each plaque was 

 originally hung from two beads. Greek work of the 4th 

 century B.C. Said to have come from Athens. 



Presented by Sir Henry H. Howorth, k.c.i.e., through the 

 National Art Collections Fund. 



VII. Terracotta statuette of a woman playing at knuckle- 

 bones {astragalizousa), from Tanagra; finest Greek style. 



Presented by Mrs. Charles Elton. 

 VIII. A collection of twenty-five vases of North Italian 

 fabrics, mostly belonging to the Bronze Age. 



Presented by R. Sneade Brown, Esq. 



IX. Leaden tablet with relief of a veiled female head and 

 an inscription. (A modern forgery.) From Ventimiglia. 



Presented by J. A. Ooodchild, Esq. 



