l6 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



22. A bronze embossed relief {emblema), representing Boreas carrying oiF Oreitbyia. 

 This relief, which has been gilt, is in very fine condition. It o?:iginally ornamented 

 the lower end of the handle of a hydria, of which the foot and the other handles were 

 found with it in a tomb in the island of Calymnos in 1855. (^See Newton, Travels in the 

 Levant, I., p. 330, pi. 15, for an account of this discovery.) 



23. A bronze female figure draped, very archaic in style, and probably of Etruscan 

 origin. 



24. A bronze figure of Apollo holding a bow. 



25. A ram in iron. 



26. A two-handled vase of black ware encircled with two friezes raised in relief, and 

 composed of groups repeated from the same mould. On the lower frieze is a male figure 

 seated on a rock, at his feet a winged female figure holding out an amphora. This group 

 may represent a city and an aqueduct. On the upper frieze are Cupids standing on festoons 

 suspended from trees. The word BASSV [S], pi'obably the maker's name, occurs in 

 raised letters. The surface shows traces of gilding, and on the cover is a wreath raised 

 and gilt. Found at Capua. Formerly in the collection of Prince Napoleon, (Frohner, 

 Choix de Vases Grecs, p. 4.3). 



27. An aryballos of early Greek fictile ware with incised ornaments. Round the 

 body is incised the maker's name, Gameres epoexe, in archaic characters. For the 

 inscription, see Heydemann, Griechische Vasenbilder, pi. x. fig. 7. Found at Thespiae in 

 Boeotia. 



28. A fresco representing a Bacchic revel, probably such as were acted by the strolling 

 companies called Thiasiti. The figures are very slightly but freely sketched. The 

 painting is in excellent condition. Found in the grounds of the Villa Panfili at Rome 

 in 1787, and formerly in the collection of Vicomte de Janze. (Engraved, Agincourt, 

 Storia deir Arte, Pittura, pi. iii.) 



29. A terra-cotta figure of a comic actor, remarkable for the vivacity of the action and 

 the freshness of the colours about the face. 



30. A chalcedony scarab, on which is engraved in an archaic style a draped male 

 figure playing on the lyre ; inscribed with the name of the engraver. The back of the 

 scarab is carved in the form of a Satyr's head. 



31. A burnt carnelian intaglio with the portrait probably of Arsinoe, the Queen of 

 Ptolemy Philadelphus. 



32. An onyx cameo representing an Hermaphrodite surrounded by Cupids, Formerly 

 in the collection of Dr. Nott. 



33. A paste intaglio representing an anguipede giant. 



34. An iron ring, in which is set a male head engraved in intaglio on metal. 



35. A carnelian intaglio with figure of a boy. From Crete, 



36. A carnelian intaadio with figure of Nemesis. From Crete, 



37. An obsidian intaglio of early Graeco-Phoenician work. From Crete. 



38. A very curious archaic lion in amber, the eyes inlaid with blue paste. 



39. A silver figure of Harpocrates, From Perugia. 



40. A bronze statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene, From Atreeb Benha, Egypt, 



41. A bronze figure of Eros seated on the capital of a column. From Antioch. 



42. A bronze figure of Eros, From Smyrna. 



43. A terra-cotta bust of a grotesque male figure. From Cumae. 



44. A collection of antiquities of various kinds purchased of M"^' Alessandro Castellani. 

 The following are the most remarkable objects in this collection : — 



Bronzes.— I. A female head of heroic size; the type is ideal, and has been attributed 

 to Aphrodite, but seems rather to present the characteristics of Artemis. The style has 

 that largeness and simplicity which is characteristic of the best age of Athenian art, and 

 of which no example in bronze on so large a scale had been previously known. This 

 head has evidently belonged to a statue about nine feet high, from which it has been 

 violently separated, the back of the head and neck having been torn or cut away. The 

 face is in admirable condition, the nose and mouth are perfect, the eyes have been filled 

 with precious stones or vitreouv^ pastes. In the front view the two sides of the face do 

 not agree. This want of drawing is probably due in a great measure to the violence 

 to which the metal was subjected when the back of the head was wrenched away. This 

 head is said to have been found in Armenia. 



2. A small 



