68 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



YU.—Fotierij. 



1. Krater, decorated with two friezes in black on a reef 

 ground. The upper frieze represents two horsemen and a 

 revel of Seileni and Msenads ; the lower, running human 

 figures among animals. The details are, contrary to the 

 usual practice, indicated in white, instead of by engraved 

 lines. The vase is of Ionian fabric, dating from the e?rly 

 part of the sixth century B.C. It has been reconstructed 

 from fragments found on the site of Kyme in JEolis. See 

 Rom. Mittheil., III., pp. 159-180, pi. YI. 



2. Plate of black ware, partly restored. In the centre ia 

 the impression of a coin of Herakleia in Lucania ; type, 

 Herakles holding cornucopise and kantharos before altar 

 (date, about 880-300 B.C.). 



3. Lekythos with designs in black upon a white ground, 

 representing Peleus seizing Thetis. Thetis transforms herself 

 into the fore-part of a lion terminating in a dolphin's tail. 

 The lion bites Peleus in the shoulder. About 520 B.C. From 

 Thebes. 



4. Vase in the form of a poppy fruit. It is decorated 

 with black and white chequers and oblique lines. Geometric 

 period (seventh century B.C.). From Corinth. 



5. A series of seven hand-made vases of dark ware^ 

 They were excavated in 1900 from a necropolis near the 

 upper Caicus valley in Mysia. The civilization there revealed 

 is analogous to that of the second city at Hissarlik (ca. 2000— 

 1500 B.C.). See Ccmpte-Rendu de V Academie des Inscrip- 

 tions, 1901, pp. 810-817. Obtained from the Royal Museum, 

 at Brussels in exchange for a series of duplicate objects front 

 Enkomi, Cyprus. 



VIII. — Morel Collection. 

 A series of 1452 objects from the Gaulish Collection of 

 M. Leon Morel. Most of these objects are in bronze and 

 pottery, and are the product of Gallo-Roman civilization. 

 They were acquired in 1901 with other antiquities illustrative 

 of the late Celtic and earJy British period in our islands by 

 the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, and 

 were temporarily exhibited in that Department. Those- 

 objects which naturally belong to the Department of Greek 

 and Roman Antiquities have now^ been transferred to it. 

 See British Museum Return, 1902, p. 75 f. 



By Donation. 



I. — 1. Bronze statuette of Hermes, seated. He wears a. 

 petasos, and rests his r. arm upon his r, thigh. The figure is 

 nude. The rocky base with the cock beside it is a restoration 

 by Flaxman. Fine condition. See Burlington Magazine^ 

 December 1904, p. 219. 



This bronze belongs to the series found at Paramythia in 

 Epeiros in 1792 (see above. III., 1) ; it was acquired by 

 Mr. John Hawkins in 1798. Greek work of the early part of 



