ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I7 



XII. Purchases. — 1. Ten terra-cotta figures remarkable for their grace and excellent 

 condition. From Tanagra. 



2. Marble relief, representing triple Hecate. 



3. Bronze fragment of repoussd work, representing Herakles and an Amazon. En- 

 graved in the Monumenti of the Koman Institute, ix. pi. 31, fig. 2. See Annali 1871, 

 p. 136. From Grumento, in the Basilicata. 



4. Marble disk, with relief, representing Apollo and Artemis destroying the family of 

 Niobe on Mount Sipylos. From Rome. Published by Heydemann, Berichte derk. 

 Sachs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft, 1877. 



5. Four terra-cotta figures. From Tanagra. 



6. A small oinnchoe of fictile ware, with design of a boy reaching after a ball, painted 

 in opaque white, picked out with gold. From Athens. 



7. A joint tile, imbrex, of fictile ware ; design painted in black with incised lines on a 

 red ground, representing two groups of seated figures. On the front is a female head in 

 relief. 



8. A terra-cotta relief; subject, Actaeon in process of transformation into a stag, and 

 attacked by his hounds ; the hounds are urged on by Artemis ; fragmentary. The same 

 subject occurs in Schone's Griechische Reliefs, pi. 31, Mo. 127. From Alexandria. 



9. Marble slab, with Greek inscription of 106 lines, recording a public decree, probably 

 of the town of Sestos, in honour of Menas, son of Menes, Avho had held various public 

 oflices and rendered many services to his native town. M ention is made of the monthly 

 sacrifice which Menas, as priest of Attains II., offered in celebration of the birthday of 

 that King. It is stated also that on the occasion of introducing a copper coinage, Menas 

 and another were chosen to superintend this work. The date of the inscription will fall 

 between B.C. 160-120. From Sestos. Published in the " Hermes," vii., p. 114. 



10. Box of coniferous wood. From a tomb at Kertch. 



11. Samian bowl. 



12. Small grotesque terra-cotta figure. From Smyrna. 



13. Head of a terra-cotta statuette. 



14. Archaic carving in amber, representing a crouching female figure. 



15. Bronze statuette of Helios. Formerly in the Norzi collection, and said to have been 

 found at Orange in France. 



16. Small marble weight and three terra-cotta lamps. Probably from the Temenos of 

 Demeter at Cnidus. 



17. Two bronze strigils. From Citta Vecchia, Malta. 



18. Two bronze spatulae, six iron spear heads, an ivory handle, and a bronze object. 

 From Ben Ghemmi, Malta. 



19. Ivory flute. From Italy. 



20. A collection of gold ornaments, including a myrtle wreath, united in the front by an 

 oblong plate, on which is a helmeted head ; two paii-s of eamngs, richly ornamented with 

 filigree and rosettes, and having each three pendent figures of Victory ; a pair of earrings, 

 each with a pendent figure of Cupid ; a necklace composed of four chains, united by a 

 swivel, and terminating in two pairs of chains mounted with smaller swivels, and having as 

 pendants thirteen pomegranates, the whole richly ornamented with filigree and granulated 

 work ; seven earrings, with pendent buds attached to chains hanging from rosettes, three 

 of which are set with garnets ; a circular stud with floral 2:»attern in filigree ; a gold stater 

 of Alexander the Great. This collection of gold ornaments was found with the coin of 

 Alexander in a tomb at Cyme in Aeolis. 



21. Bronze upper part of female figure, in repousse work, which has been attached as 

 an emblema to some object. Found in tomb at Cyme with the preceding gold orna- 

 ments. 



22. Pair of earrings in electrum, and ornamented with granulated work ; of an early 

 period. 



23. Gold ring, set with emerald, on which is incised in late Greek letters AABE. 



24. Pair of small earrings, ornamented with plasma. 



25. Carnelian intaglio. Head of Herakles. 



26. Steatite circular intaglio, with design of Chimaera. 



27. Haematite circular intaglio, with design of ox. 



159. C 28. Circular 



