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



pourlni; a libation from a patera. On the left is the prow of a galley ; in the back- 

 ground on the right are diminutive figures. 



2. A sepulchral relief, in marble, with a banquet scene, below which is a galley in 

 outline, and a Greek inscription in honour of Dionysodoros, son of Pytheos. 



3. A sepulchral relief, in marble, representing a banquet scene, in which a male fio-ure 

 reclines on a couch, and a female figure is seated feeding a snake coiled round a tree. 



4. Part of a marble stele, with relief representing a female figure seated, and ap- 

 proached by two diminutive figures. 



5. A email marble stele, with a Greek inscription and a sepulchral relief representino* 

 a female figure seated and a male figure standing beside a diminutive figure. 



6. A marble urn with relief representing a female figure seated between two female 

 figures standing. 



7. The upper part of a marble stele, inscribed with the names of Nikostratas, Otion, 

 and Dexikleos. 



8. A marble altar or pedestal, inscribed L. Curtius Onesiphorus Aipiciani C. F. 



9. A marble Corinthian capital. 



10. An ornamented front of a roof-tile in marble. 



"With the above collection were two Turkish marble tombstones ; it is therefore pro- 

 bable that all these marbles were brought to this country from Asia Minor, perhaps from 

 Smyrna. 



III. — A marble statue of a boy extracting a thorn from his foot, — a most rare and 

 interesting work of the realistic school of Greek sculpture which flourished about B.C. 200. 

 This statue was found on the Esquiline Hill at Rome, and formerly belonged to Monsio-nor 

 Merode, from whom it passed to M. Alessandro Castellani. Engraved in the Archao- 

 logische Zeitung, 1879, plates 2, 3, and in the Monument! of the Roman Institute, 

 X., plate XXX. 



IV. — 1. A terra-cotta draped female statuette, holding an apple in her lap. From 

 Tanagra. 



2-3. Two terra-cotta statuettes of comic actors. From Tanagra. 



4. A terra-cotta figure of a mule with a sea-perch (?)' strapped on its back. From 

 Tanagra. , 



V. — A small bronze wheel, on the felly of which is inscribed a dedication in archaic 

 Greek letters, TOI FANAKOI • EMI : EYA . . . S • ANEC3EKE, said to have been 

 found near Argos. 



VI. — Antiquities discovered in excavations in Cyprus : — 



1. At Aradippo: nineteen fictile vases painted with geometric patterns, two small 

 stone vessels, a bronze bowl, and an iron hook with ring attached. 



2. At Bamhoiila, near Lurnaka: in, marble, a female head from a statuette, fragment of 

 a relief, and three fragmentary vases ; in terra-cotta, six statuettes, the head of an ox, a 

 head in relief from the rim of a vase, three handles of diotge stamped with magistrates' 

 names, a vase of red ware, and the weight of a loom; in calcareous stone, four archaic 

 heads of statuettes, a Sphinx, a ram supporting a laver, a small altar ; a small vessel in 

 the shape of a bath in dark stone ; in bronze, a lamp and six nails ; also four shells and a 

 lump of blue colour. These remains from Bamboula, together with two Phoenician inscrip- 

 tions written on marble slabs, were found in a mound near a swamp, which is believed to 

 mark the site of the ancient harbour of Kition. 



3. Kt Amathus : three scarabaei in Egyptian porcelain with hieroglyphics, probably 

 of Phoenician fabric, a terra-cotta statuette, part of an archaic terra-cotta statuette, a 

 marble head from a statue, five bronze vases, or fragments of vasesj a bronze mirror, and 

 part of a mirror-case; two bronze spear heads. 



4. At Amathux and Limassol : forty-one fictile vases, plain or painted with geometric 

 patterns, part of a horse, two fragments of reliefs, part of an archaic figure, a rude male 

 figure, and a weight in terra-cotta. 



Presents. I.~-l. Two terra-cotta lamps, two porcelain beads, a small box, two hair- 

 pins, four bodkins, and two spatulse in bone, a ring and two fibulae in bronze. From 

 Salona. 



2. A bronze sword found near Scutari, in Albania. 

 Presented hy Charles West, Esq. 



II.— A gold 



