GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 63" 



4. Statuette of an ape standing before a shallow bowl ; 

 with the r. hand he holds a round cake to his mouth, with 

 the 1. a pestle, which rests in the bowl. 



2-4. From Tanagra. 



5. Statuette of Aphrodite standing. She is clothed in a 

 thin transparent chiton, which has fallen off her ]. shoulder, 

 and a himation drawn over her hips and wrapped round her 

 r. leg. She binds a fillet round her hair with arms uplifted.. 

 From Asia Minor. 



YIL—Pottefy. 

 1. Fragment of a phiale. A mask of Medusa of late type 

 rises in relief from the centre. The ground of the bowl is 

 pink with black border. 



Ylll.—Iron. 

 1. Strigil, inscribed Avith punctured letters. . . [H] PAKAEL 



1, 2. From Upper Egypt. 

 Donations. 



I. Panathenaic Amphora ; (a) Athena striding to L 

 between two columns with Doric capitals surmounted by 

 cocks. Her r. hand holds a spear, and her 1. a shield 

 with the device of a winged Victory advancing to the 1. 

 (6) Two youths on horseback, galloping to the r., hurl 

 iavelins at a round shield set up upon a pole as target. The 

 first has passed the target which he has hit in the centre 

 with his javelin, the second is taking aim. For the subject 

 (aKovrt^tfv a0' "i-mrov), cf. a vase in t^^ Louvre, published 

 by Millin, Peintures de vases antiques, I. 45., and by 

 P. Wolters, Griech. Agonen, in 30 Progr. of Wiirzburg Univ., 

 and a vase from Eretria published by the latter, loc. cit. 

 From Benghazi in the Cyrenaica. 



Presented by The Right Hon. Sir Henry Camphell- 

 Bannerman, G.C.B., M.P. 



II. Stone pillar with late Greek inscription : kutu KiXevaiv 

 6iOv fX£yi(TTOv B..UTIOV ov OjULVvovrec; £vr£u0£v. Found on the 

 summit of Mount Hermon, 1870. Cf. Quarterly Statement 

 of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1870, p. 328, and ibid.,. 

 April 1903. 



Presented by the Palestine Exploration Fund. 



III. Terracotta pyxis. On the lid is a relief of Aphrodite 

 and Adonis embracing in the presence of Eros. There are 

 remains of blue and pink on the guilloche border and of blue 

 on the figures. See Catalogue of Terracottas, D 208, of 

 which the design is apparently taken from the same moukL 

 Said to have come froQii Pompeii. 



Presented by George LiddelL Esq., R.JY, 



